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Canon Street

135 reports at 52 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 105 separate days somebody filed something about it.

135 reports52 addresses105 days reported onfrom the air, then89 documents carry the namethe 672nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

71 Canon Street, 9 reports88 Canon Street, 7 reports8 Canon Street, 7 reports2 Canon Street, 7 reports70 Canon Street, 6 reports38 Canon Street, 6 reports34 Canon Street, 6 reports74 Canon Street, 5 reports54 Canon Street, 5 reports92 Canon Street, 4 reports86A Canon Street, 4 reports76 Canon Street, 4 reports47 Canon Street, 4 reports37 Canon Street, 4 reports98 Canon Street, 3 reports81A Canon Street, 3 reports79 Canon Street, 3 reports106 Canon Street, 3 reports83A Canon Street, 2 reports83 Canon Street, 2 reports81B Canon Street, 2 reports81 Canon Street, 2 reports73 Canon Street, 2 reports52 Canon Street, 2 reports44 Canon Street, 2 reports32 Canon Street, 2 reports25 Canon Street, 2 reports23 Canon Street, 2 reports100 Canon Street, 2 reports95 Canon Street, 1 report94 Canon Street, 1 report93 Canon Street, 1 report89 Canon Street, 1 report87B Canon Street, 1 report87 Canon Street, 1 report84 Canon Street, 1 report81-85 Canon Street, 1 report77 Canon Street, 1 report72 Canon Street, 1 report57 Canon Street, 1 report44-58 Canon Street, 1 report43 Canon Street, 1 report3–29 Canon Street, 1 report35 Canon Street, 1 report26 Canon Street, 1 report22 Canon Street, 1 report20A Canon Street, 1 report20 Canon Street, 1 report11 Canon Street, 1 report107 Canon Street, 1 report10 Canon Street, 1 report1 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 Saint Albans.

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 named ground

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

Saint Albans Creek stream · 126 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 110 m away St Albans Community Centre ramp · 111 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 112 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 116 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 123 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Canon Street in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 4 seriously hurt.

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 photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Canon Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Canon Street?

135 reports at 52 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (39), water & drains (34), graffiti & vandalism (24).

When was Canon Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 105 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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