McCallum Street ( Chinese: 麦卡南街) is a one-way

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located in

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, and the financial district of

Shenton Way Shenton Way is a major trunk road serving Singapore's Central Area and is most commonly known for the commercial skyscrapers flanking both sides of the road. The road is a one-way street that starts at the junction of Boon Tat Street, Raffles Qu ...

in the planning areas of both Outram and

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, respectively. The street starts from

and ends at the junction of Telok Ayer Street which then continues to Amoy Street. The Chinatown part of the street links the junction of Telok Ayer Street and Amoy Street towards

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, and for the Shenton Way part linking from Shenton Way to Cecil Street.

Etymology

Before the official naming of the street, the street was called ''tit lok a-ek bue-tiau koi'' in Hokkien, meaning the "last street in Telok Ayer" as it was unnamed. In 1895, after the town area of Singapore is levelled and drained and the area divided into various, various public streets were declared in the new area, including McCallum Street. The street is named after Major

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, who was a colonial

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in Singapore in the 1890s.

References

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