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8 unusual facts about Queensway


John Alexander Brodie

But Brodie's greatest engineering achievement was undoubtedly the Mersey Tunnel completed in 1934 following nine years in the making.

Johnny Sandelson

Sandelson is one of the principals behind the recent acquisition of large parts of the Queensway district of West London with a view to the redevelopment of the area.

Marlene Catterall

She has been criticised for not doing enough for the Queensway-Carleton Hospital in her riding.

Queensway-Carleton Hospital

Pierre Poilievre, MP representing Nepean—Carleton, attempted to reduce the rent of the hospital to $1 per year during his first term in office.

Queensway, Gibraltar

Queensway is a main coastal road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the only road servicing the oldest leisure marina on The Rock, Queensway Quay.

Queensway, Hong Kong

On the "waterfront" (northern) side of the road, also from west to east: Chater Garden, site of Hong Kong's former main cricket ground; the Lippo Centre; Queensway Plaza – a one-storey shopping mall next to the United Centre office block, also linked to Pacific Place opposite by means of a fully enclosed skywalk; the small Harcourt Garden; and, at the Wan Chai end, the Hong Kong Police Headquarters.

Queensway, London

It was subsequently renamed Queen's Road in honour of Queen Victoria, who had been born at nearby Kensington Palace.

London's biggest ice rink, the Queens Ice & Bowl in Queensway was recently renovated after investment and development by Robert Bourne (developer) and Bourne Capital.


Dave Bolland

Born in 1986 in Mimico, a neighbourhood of Etobicoke, Ontario at the time, Bolland started playing hockey at the local arena, Mimico Arena, where he played for the Queensway Canadiens, then playing minor hockey for the Toronto Red Wings in the Greater Toronto Hockey League from 2000 until 2002.

Glacis Road

Glacis Road is a road in northern end of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, the southwestern end of which is the junction with the Waterport Roundabout, where Waterport Road and Queensway also intersect.

Kelowna Regional Transit System

There are 26 regularly scheduled routes and a BRT service called RapidBus, connecting between Downtown Queensway Exchange and UBC Okanagan Exchange.

Orleans, Ontario

Growth has focused around the Place d'Orléans shopping centre, a large shopping centre with over 175 stores situated off Ottawa Regional Road 174 (the Queensway).

Purley Way

The first opened on the Thornton Road Industrial Estate: the Queensway furniture store in 1980, MFI furniture in 1981, Payless DIY in 1983 and Do It All in 1986.

St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham

The cathedral is in a green public space near Birmingham Snow Hill station and is located on what is now called St Chad's Queensway after the cathedral, at the junction with Snow Hill Queensway and Old Snow Hill (becomes Constitution Hill), part of the Birmingham Inner Ring Road constructed in 1970s.

St. Joseph's Health Centre

From the Dundas West subway station, the 504 King streetcar stops at Queen Street/The Queensway one block to the east, on Roncesvalles Avenue, where a transfer can be made to the 501 streetcar.


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