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Montreal Street

1,342 reports at 170 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 700 separate days somebody filed something about it.

1,342 reports170 addresses700 days reported on7 on the registerfrom the air, then1,517 documents carry the name15 businessesthe 24th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

310 Montreal Street, 49 reports262 Montreal Street, 48 reports245 Montreal Street, 43 reports325 Montreal Street, 39 reports248 Montreal Street, 35 reports327 Montreal Street, 34 reports208 Montreal Street, 32 reports338 Montreal Street, 30 reports326 Montreal Street, 30 reports290 Montreal Street, 30 reports163 Montreal Street, 29 reports350 Montreal Street, 28 reports301 Montreal Street, 28 reports279 Montreal Street, 28 reports262A Montreal Street, 28 reports168 Montreal Street, 28 reports239 Montreal Street, 27 reports365 Montreal Street, 24 reports305 Montreal Street, 22 reports200 Montreal Street, 22 reports155 Montreal Street, 22 reports254 Montreal Street, 20 reports181 Montreal Street, 19 reports366 Montreal Street, 18 reports277 Montreal Street, 16 reports393 Montreal Street, 15 reports317 Montreal Street, 15 reports273 Montreal Street, 15 reports376 Montreal Street, 14 reports316 Montreal Street, 14 reports322 Montreal Street, 13 reports250 Montreal Street, 13 reports153 Montreal Street, 13 reports334 Montreal Street, 12 reports294B Montreal Street, 12 reports187 Montreal Street, 12 reports256 Montreal Street, 11 reports226 Montreal Street, 11 reports196 Montreal Street, 11 reports294 Montreal Street, 10 reports227 Montreal Street, 10 reports206 Montreal Street, 10 reports198 Montreal Street, 10 reports183 Montreal Street, 10 reports395 Montreal Street, 9 reports193 Montreal Street, 9 reports447 Montreal Street, 8 reports440 Montreal Street, 8 reports416 Montreal Street, 8 reports403 Montreal Street, 8 reports399 Montreal Street, 8 reports374 Montreal Street, 8 reports296 Montreal Street, 8 reports253 Montreal Street, 8 reports219 Montreal Street, 8 reports202 Montreal Street, 8 reports192 Montreal Street, 8 reports174 Montreal Street, 8 reports453 Montreal Street, 7 reports451 Montreal Street, 7 reports419 Montreal Street, 7 reports390 Montreal Street, 7 reports312 Montreal Street, 7 reports225 Montreal Street, 7 reports384 Montreal Street, 6 reports382 Montreal Street, 6 reports351 Montreal Street, 6 reports330 Montreal Street, 6 reports252 Montreal Street, 6 reports190 Montreal Street, 6 reports420 Montreal Street, 5 reports381 Montreal Street, 5 reports325-327 Montreal Street, 5 reports3/193 Montreal Street, 5 reports408 Montreal Street, 4 reports395-399 Montreal Street, 4 reports363 Montreal Street, 4 reports360 Montreal Street, 4 reports315 Montreal Street, 4 reports309 Montreal Street, 4 reports264 Montreal Street, 4 reports242 Montreal Street, 4 reports162 Montreal Street, 4 reports410 Montreal Street, 3 reports401 Montreal Street, 3 reports388 Montreal Street, 3 reports353 Montreal Street, 3 reports292 Montreal Street, 3 reports281–293 Montreal Street, 3 reports276-258 Montreal Street, 3 reports275 Montreal Street, 3 reports266 Montreal Street, 3 reports201 Montreal Street, 3 reports189 Montreal Street, 3 reports175 Montreal Street, 3 reports173A Montreal Street, 3 reports172 Montreal Street, 3 reports170 Montreal Street, 3 reports166 Montreal Street, 3 reports412–422 Montreal Street, 2 reports406 Montreal Street, 2 reports382A Montreal Street, 2 reports362 Montreal Street, 2 reports324–336 Montreal Street, 2 reports311 Montreal Street, 2 reports309-311 Montreal Street, 2 reports304 Montreal Street, 2 reports294A Montreal Street, 2 reports274 Montreal Street, 2 reports224 Montreal Street, 2 reports221 Montreal Street, 2 reports215 Montreal Street, 2 reports182 Montreal Street, 2 reports167 Montreal Street, 2 reports8/294 Montreal Street, 1 report5/388 Montreal Street, 1 report455 Montreal Street, 1 report447A Montreal Street, 1 report447-455 Montreal Street, 1 report447-449 Montreal Street, 1 report424–430 Montreal Street, 1 report422 Montreal Street, 1 report409 Montreal Street, 1 report407 Montreal Street, 1 report4/193 Montreal Street, 1 report398 Montreal Street, 1 report390A Montreal Street, 1 report390-388 Montreal Street, 1 report381-393 Montreal Street, 1 report368 Montreal Street, 1 report336 Montreal Street, 1 report324 Montreal Street, 1 report305-309 Montreal Street, 1 report303 Montreal Street, 1 report302 Montreal Street, 1 report3/360 Montreal Street, 1 report294J Montreal Street, 1 report294G Montreal Street, 1 report294-306 Montreal Street, 1 report293 Montreal Street, 1 report287-301 Montreal Street, 1 report286–296 Montreal Street, 1 report284 Montreal Street, 1 report281 Montreal Street, 1 report279-283 Montreal Street, 1 report272 Montreal Street, 1 report269 Montreal Street, 1 report267-273 Montreal Street, 1 report267 Montreal Street, 1 report264–282 Montreal Street, 1 report262-278 Montreal Street, 1 report260 Montreal Street, 1 report250A Montreal Street, 1 report249 Montreal Street, 1 report241-243 Montreal Street, 1 report229–239 Montreal Street, 1 report225-227 Montreal Street, 1 report223 Montreal Street, 1 report216 Montreal Street, 1 report213-215 Montreal Street, 1 report198–200 Montreal Street, 1 report194 Montreal Street, 1 report188 Montreal Street, 1 report177-193 Montreal Street, 1 report177 Montreal Street, 1 report173 Montreal Street, 1 report163A Montreal Street, 1 report158-162 Montreal Street, 1 report157 Montreal Street, 1 report153-159 Montreal Street, 1 reportCommercial Building and Setting, Former W. Williamson Construction Company: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwellings and Setting, West Avon Flats: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Montreal Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

From the air, then

Montreal Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Montreal Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Montreal Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

and the other 110 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,517 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 15

Premises whose address in the directory is Montreal Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 3 more whose address names it.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 16 m away Rhododendron Island island · 110 m away Mill Island island · 189 m away unnamed set of steps · 8 m away unnamed set of steps · 9 m away Victoria Triangles set of steps · 14 m away Avon Riverbank Central City set of steps · 17 m away Avon Riverbank Central City ramp · 19 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Montreal Street in 118 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 18 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Traffic Signals, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Montreal Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Montreal Street?

1,342 reports at 170 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (970), roads & footpaths (168), water & drains (87).

When was Montreal Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 700 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Montreal Street?

Commercial Building and Setting, Former W. Williamson Construction Company, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, 4 more on the register.

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