Battleford to complete address registry before renaming streets

After an ambulance was dispatched to the wrong address in Battleford, council was asked to consider changing some of the town’s duplicated avenue names.

“We have a lot of 1st Avenue East and 1st Avenue West,” Mayor Ames Leslie said. “If somebody doesn’t put the east or west into their GPS, it takes them to the wrong place.”

As the administration looked into the process, they discovered Battleford has never completed the Civic Address Registry. The voluntary program, overseen by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, allows municipalities to manage address information through an online mapping system and geographic database.

“It’s a very comprehensive, in-depth registry that has to be done to register every house, every address, every street, every avenue, any parcel of land within the town of Battleford so we can go down the process of changing a few street names,” Leslie said.