History
The street was named after George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Stephen Avenue contains a high concentration of registered historic buildings in the city and the street itself was declared a Canadian historic site in 2002. Most of these building are sandstone; a result of the construction of fire resistant buildings that followed a fire in 1886 that damaged much of the city. Wooden constructions consumed in the fire were replaced by Paskapoo sandstone buildings such as the Burns Building and Fairmont Palliser Hotel.
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