Sir William Stephenson to get street name
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WINNIPEG – City council’s property and development committee has agreed to change the name of Water Street to honour the memory and achievements of Second World War spymaster Sir William Stephenson.
Couns. Scott Fielding, Mike O’Shaughnessy and Jeff Browaty voted unanimously to rename Water Street, which runs east from Main Street to the Provencher Bridge, to either William Stephenson Way or William Stephenson Avenue – and waive the fees involved in the name change.
The name change, which still requires executive policy committee and council approval, is supported by the Intrepid Society, a Winnipeg organization dedicated to Stephenson, who is also known as The Man Called Intrepid.
Born in Winnipeg, Stephenson was a telegraph operator and First World War airman who wound up a wealthy industrialist in the U.K. during the lead-up to the Second World War.
In the fight against the Nazis, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tapped Stephenson to create and run a New York City-based intelligence-gathering network that is credited with cracking German codes and shortening the duration of the war.
"William Stephenson is one of the greatest people ever to come out of this country," said Paul Armstrong of the Intrepid Society.
A previous proposal to rename Portage Avenue East was rejected because too many businesses would have been forced to change their addresses.