Streets, Suburbs and Parks

The Town of Victoria Park’s streets, lanes, roads, parks and reserves have been named to reflect its history, development and sometimes geographical features. This is also referred to as Nomenclature, which is the system or choosing of names for things.

The Town’s nomenclature has been mainly chosen first by Peet and Co. and other real estate companies, then by iterations of local government throughout the development of the area. The iterations being the Victoria Park Roads Board (1894-1897), the Municipality of Victoria Park (1897-1917); Perth City Council (1917-1994) and the Town of Victoria Park (1994-present).

The Town now has in place Policy 111 Commemorative Recognition which governs how the general public can submit a nomination for Town nomenclature (and other items) and describes the process of such nomenclature being named in honour of people, groups or events.

Research into the meaning behind all nomenclature in the Town of Victoria Park is ongoing and as new information comes to light it will be added to this webpage.

Town nomenclature is listed alphabetically below in the following three main categories:

• Suburb Names
• Lanes, Roads and Streets of Victoria Park
• Parks and Reserves

[1] Pearsall, J. and Trumble B. (eds.) 1996, The Oxford English Reference Dictionary, 2^nd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 986