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Montreal Street

364 reports at 71 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 228 separate days somebody filed something about it.

364 reports71 addresses228 days reported onfrom the air, then1,286 documents carry the name5 businessesthe 260th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3/193 Montreal Street, 30 reports46 Montreal Street, 29 reports97 Montreal Street, 17 reports107 Montreal Street, 17 reports1 Montreal Street, 16 reports118 Montreal Street, 13 reports106 Montreal Street, 13 reports39 Montreal Street, 12 reports126 Montreal Street, 12 reports110 Montreal Street, 11 reports153 Montreal Street, 10 reports128 Montreal Street, 10 reports119 Montreal Street, 9 reports130 Montreal Street, 8 reports41 Montreal Street, 7 reports47 Montreal Street, 6 reports32 Montreal Street, 6 reports124 Montreal Street, 6 reports114 Montreal Street, 6 reports109 Montreal Street, 6 reports95 Montreal Street, 5 reports76 Montreal Street, 5 reports69 Montreal Street, 5 reports53 Montreal Street, 5 reports21 Montreal Street, 5 reports140 Montreal Street, 5 reports88 Montreal Street, 4 reports5 Montreal Street, 4 reports49 Montreal Street, 4 reports23 Montreal Street, 4 reports162 Montreal Street, 4 reports116 Montreal Street, 4 reports102 Montreal Street, 4 reports9 Montreal Street, 3 reports7 Montreal Street, 3 reports67 Montreal Street, 3 reports62 Montreal Street, 3 reports45 Montreal Street, 3 reports127 Montreal Street, 3 reports10 Montreal Street, 3 reports80 Montreal Street, 2 reports77 Montreal Street, 2 reports55 Montreal Street, 2 reports52 Montreal Street, 2 reports50 Montreal Street, 2 reports3 Montreal Street, 2 reports25 Montreal Street, 2 reports19B Montreal Street, 2 reports19 Montreal Street, 2 reports102-104 Montreal Street, 2 reports91 Montreal Street, 1 report90 Montreal Street, 1 report89 Montreal Street, 1 report85 Montreal Street, 1 report75 Montreal Street, 1 report73 Montreal Street, 1 report68 Montreal Street, 1 report65 Montreal Street, 1 report60 Montreal Street, 1 report53B Montreal Street, 1 report53A Montreal Street, 1 report51 Montreal Street, 1 report40 Montreal Street, 1 report34 Montreal Street, 1 report154-156 Montreal Street, 1 report154 Montreal Street, 1 report135-137 Montreal Street, 1 report130B Montreal Street, 1 report130A Montreal Street, 1 report123 Montreal Street, 1 report122 Montreal Street, 1 report

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. The strong outline is Sydenham.

From the air, then

Montreal Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Montreal Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · 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 11 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,286 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 5

Premises whose address in the directory is Montreal 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.

Jacksons Creek stream · 5 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Montreal Street in 75 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, 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 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 photoDamaged Road, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Montreal Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Montreal Street?

364 reports at 71 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (199), roads & footpaths (65), rubbish & dumping (52).

When was Montreal Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 228 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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