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Canon Street

124 reports at 40 addresses in Edgeware, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 108 separate days somebody filed something about it.

124 reports40 addresses108 days reported onfrom the air, then89 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 650th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

109A Canon Street, 12 reports142 Canon Street, 11 reports128 Canon Street, 8 reports116 Canon Street, 8 reports124 Canon Street, 6 reports111 Canon Street, 6 reports109 Canon Street, 6 reports159 Canon Street, 4 reports123B Canon Street, 4 reports119A Canon Street, 4 reports112 Canon Street, 4 reports156 Canon Street, 3 reports151A Canon Street, 3 reports123 Canon Street, 3 reports115 Canon Street, 3 reports109B Canon Street, 3 reports107 Canon Street, 3 reports106 Canon Street, 3 reports161 Canon Street, 2 reports158 Canon Street, 2 reports145 Canon Street, 2 reports127 Canon Street, 2 reports125 Canon Street, 2 reports121 Canon Street, 2 reports117 Canon Street, 2 reports110 Canon Street, 2 reports98-116 Canon Street, 1 report151 Canon Street, 1 report138-136 Canon Street, 1 report136 Canon Street, 1 report131 Canon Street, 1 report129 Canon Street, 1 report123A Canon Street, 1 report120 Canon Street, 1 report119 Canon Street, 1 report116-124 Canon Street, 1 report115A Canon Street, 1 report114 Canon Street, 1 report104E Canon Street, 1 report100 Canon Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Canon Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Edgeware.

From the air, then

Canon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Canon Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Canon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Canon 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 89 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 67 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Canon Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Water Leak, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoLitter, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoLitter, a report photo more photographs
on the Edgeware wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Canon Street?

In Edgeware, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Canon Street?

124 reports at 40 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (47), water & drains (26), roads & footpaths (26).

When was Canon Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 108 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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