DCHP-2

parkade < park (arc)ade DCHP-2 (December 2016)

• n. — Automotive

  a building, usually above-ground and with several storeys, serving as a parking area for motor vehicles.

  Type: 1. Origin — Parkade is probably of Canadian origin, linked to the Hudson Bay department stores, which first appeared in Western Canada (see the first 1958 quotation). Boberg (2010: 179), with data gathered from self-reports, considers it primarily a Prairie and BC term (from Ontario eastwards parking garage is more frequently reported than parkade). Parkade is also the majority term in PEI (Boberg 2010). Chart 2 substantiates this finding. The term is most common in Alberta (see Chart 2), confirming overall the Prairie dominance from Boberg (MB, SK, AB) and BC, which can be partly explained by the western Canadian connection to the HBC department stores, as the first six of which, the "original six", opened in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg (see HBC reference), where the term is frequent to this day.
  Apart from Canada (see Chart 1), the term has currency in South Africa, where it is most likely an independent development. Some US locations have adopted parkade (see the one shown in Image 2, from Spokane, Washington). From a North American perspective, the term is Canadian also by virtue of frequency (Type 5).
  See COD-2, which labels the term "Cdn". See Gravol and day parole for other terms with a Canada/South-Africa parallel.

  See also: Gravol  parking stall  day parole  

  • 1957  1. Recreation centre; including curling rink, swimming pool, gymnasium, and physical education classrooms. 2. More residences for both single and married students. 3. Additions to the Agriculture and Engineering buildings. 4. Extension of facilities for the medical and dental schools. 5. Removal of huts and the building of a new Studio Theatre. 6. A new five-storey PARKADE! 
  • 1958  700 tons of A.I.M. Reinforcing Steel were supplied and fabricated for the new Hudson Bay Co. "Parkade" now under construction in downtown Edmonton.
  • 1958  A young woman threatened . . . to jump from the top of a six-storey parkade in downtown Calgary. . . .
  • 1964  "A few years ago," he said, "I suggested in the spirit of levity, that the next major building we should plan was a six-storey parkade. Today this suggestion would be regarded much more seriously." 
  • 1973  Chief Barager came to the job about a year ago, about the same time as the city's new 200-car Parkade opened, after serving as a sergeant with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Kamloops. 
  • 1983  A 1,000 car, covered parkade. 
  • 1988  Twenty cars and thousands of tonnes of concrete tumbled into the new Save-On-Foods' produce section when the parkade roof collapsed April 23, minutes after the store was officially declared open. 
  • 2000  As the year comes to a close, there is only a sign advertising the Chilkoot Centre "opening fall 2000" in the vacant lot at the bottom of the hill, plans for the parkade have been scraped, and building the new aquatic centre has been delayed until next summer. Meanwhile, the city's buses lay dormant as its drivers picket on the strike line. 
  • 2008  Saturday Feb 2 Underwear Outside Bike Polo Tournament Inside! 12pm Check-in/Late registration; 12:30pm first game 295 W 2nd, Vancouver A bike polo tournament in a covered parkade. Round robin starts at noon, two games per team with a 10 minute time limit. Single elimination will follow round robin immediately. 
  • 2010  The estimated cost of the Regina stadium outlined by the minister is highly suspect. It doesn't include relocating rail lines, building the parkade, rerouting traffic, purchasing the land, or even purchasing the sound and electronic infrastructure. 
  • 2012  In the old days," says Vancouver's planning director, Brent Toderian, "they would have had to not only build the parking required for the new construction" - about 300 stalls - "but you would have had to replace the parking of the old garage." In this case, the parkade that will be torn down has about 500 spaces. Vancouver's 1997 transportation plan capped downtown parking and banned new roads. 
  • 2016  City parkades are open 24 hours, seven days a week, providing you with the opportunity to enjoy all that downtown Victoria has to offer, without the worry of a parking ticket.