Kamloops and Kelowna are cities in British Columbia, Canada, and I’m 99% sure that our Kamloops and Kelowna streets were named by Peter Henry Haack (1856-1915) and/or his wife Mathilda (née Rombrot, 1864-1956). They owned a ranch where these two streets originated, and while Peter was a German immigrant, Mathilda did indeed come from BC: the couple married there in 1883 and their only child Henry (1884-1967) was born there as well – shortly before the Haacks fled to California to evade Peter’s unpaid debts. They ran a boarding house in DTLA for several years while Peter made money in the horse trade, then made much more in real estate. At the time of his 1915 death, with properties all over Los Angeles and 6,000 acres in Tulare County, he was reportedly worth $1.25 million. Henry Haack went on to manage his parents’ interests and also partnered with Sherrill Osborne (see Osborne Street) in a realty firm. He married thrice: first to Marie Petit, cousin of Petit Avenue‘s namesake; then to singer Amber Fay, who bore him a daughter (also named Amber) but left him for a fellow warbler; and finally to Mabel Gardner.
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