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White Squirrels Can’t Trump
Photos by Jonathan Goldsbie/Torontoist
In July 2006, City Council approved a staff report recommending names for the new streets created as part of the redeveloped Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) property at 1001 Queen Street West [PDF]; one of these was White Squirrel Way, in reference “to the rare white squirrels that nest in the vicinity.”
As the parkette at the corner of Queen and White Squirrel is itself about to get a name [PDF], now might also be a good time to fix the misspelling on the street sign; such typos happen occasionally, Jack Lakey recently explained, because workers at the City’s sign shop have to manually input the names into the computer system that does the lettering. We, however, prefer to imagine that this was a deliberate subtle homage to Ridley Scott’s forgotten late-90s output and look forward to the letters “G” and “I” popping up on Jane in the near future.