Wasatch and Boise avenues are mementos of a Mormon-themed tract set up here in late 1922 by George W. McCune (1872-1963), a local leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Along with McCune Avenue, which of course was for himself, and Stewart Avenue, for attorney and fellow churchman Charles B. Stewart, McCune named four streets after LDS-relevant places: Boise, after the Idaho capital, which has long had an active Mormon population; Wasatch, for a mountain range in Utah; Logan (now part of Victoria), for the Utah town; and Evanston (now Colonial), after Evanston, WY, a Mormon community. Presumably McCune – who would live on Wasatch himself – found “Salt Lake City Avenue” too wordy for a street name.
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