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Queen Victoria Street is in three parts (one being the roadway that goes over the older Traffic Bridge, which is therefore also known as the Queen Victoria Bridge). The one in Fremantle was called Cantonment Road (as early as 1833[1]) as it continued Cantonment Street (after a dog-leg through Edward Street) presumably to a cantonment at the base of Cantonment Hill, but its name was changed in 1892 because of the obvious confusion.
The third part is in North Fremantle and was part of what was formerly known as the Perth Road and then Victoria Avenue. That part of the former Perth Rd that is to the north of Queen Victoria St is now Stirling Highway. The southernmost portion of the Perth Road became known as Victoria Avenue in 1923, and later Queen Victoria Street.
Significant buildings in QV St (North) are the Swan Hotel, the former NF Town Hall, and the former Wesleyan Church. The Rose Hotel was in the Perth Road, but is in that part which is now Stirling Highway, as are the former North Fremantle School, and St Anne's Catholic Church.
Before these roads came in existence there was a Perth-Fremantle track which was on the alignment now formed by Palmerston Street in Mosman Park and View Street in Peppermint Grove. Part of what is now Canning Highway may also have been called the Perth-Fremantle Road.
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This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 17 October, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/perthroad.html (it was last updated on 19 November, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.