Somewhere, the late Peter McSheffrey is frowning.
Flin Flon city council last week approved final reading of a motion to close McSheffrey Avenue, a road that never officially existed.
Thus Peter McSheffrey, who was mayor of Flin Flon in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remains the only early mayor without a street, bridge or park named in his honour.
The city has sold the section of road in question, located between Boam and Adams streets, to a homeowner who wanted to build a garage on the land.
While there is a wide, unpaved path marking where McSheffrey Avenue would have gone, the road was never formally established.
“This is just a road that never existed that was in our municipal maps,” said Coun. Bill Hanson at a previous council meeting.
Hanson said McSheffrey Avenue was originally going to stretch from Boam Street near the Ross Lake Cemetery up to Adams Street near the apartment complex.
“The road was never put in and there’s no need to put in that road,” he said.
According to the book Flin Flon, McSheffrey’s “political ideas often bordered on the socialistic,” causing him to clash with one of his colleagues, the more conservative George Mainwaring.
The book describes McSheffrey, who worked in the mechanical department at HBM&S (now Hudbay) as “a spirited Scot, a man whose pretentious style of speech and writing tended to chafe his fellow workers and nettle the townspeople.”
