A U.K. online business — apparently with buckets of time on its hands — has researched and unveiled what it calls “Canada’s rudest” postal codes..Research by Money.co.uk shows the most unusual and awkward postal codes (the wacky Brits called it a “postcode”) in Canada and the UK and looked at the potential it can have on house prices..As every maple-syrup blooded Canuck knows, Canadian postal codes contain a six-digit string of numbers and letters to create the final outcome, if one ignores the hyphen that splits the codes .Using numeronyms —words where a number is used to form an abbreviation — the Brits discovered some odd pairings..For example, in Timmins, Ont. you’ll find the postcode P4N-1C5. Nothing too eye-popping there until you dissolve the hyphen and are left with P4N1C5 (PANICS)..M4X1M5 (MAXIM) is more associated with a mens’ mag, not a vibrant area of downtown Toronto..In another example, one area of Winnipeg sports the R3L1C5 (RELICS) code. .However, the area of Canada that easily takes the title for most unfortunate postcode has to be a street in Delta East Central: V4G1N4 (VAGINA). .The Brit release noted with the average Canadian house price currently around $716,828, living in a postcode such as V4G1N4 may actually effect your house price. However, no proof of the claim was offered..Here are the top 21 most unusual/amusing postcodes in Canada:.• B3G1N5 (begins) Eastern Passage, NS;.• B4N4N4 (banana) Kentville, NS;.• L1V1N6 (living) Pickering Southwest, ON:.• L3C3L5 (levels) Orilla, ON:.• L4G3R5 (lagers) Aurora, ON;.• M4G1C5 (magics) East York (Leaside), ON;.• M4L1C3 (malice) East Toronto (India Bazaar / The Beaches West), ON;.• M4R1N3 (marine) Central Toronto (North Toronto West), ON;.• P3N1L3 (penile) Greater Sudbury (Val Caron), ON;.• P4N1C5 (panics) Timmins Southeast, ON;.• R3J3C7 (reject) Winnipeg (St. James-Assiniboia SE), MB;.• R3L1C5 (relics) Winnipeg (River Heights East), MB;.• R3M0V3 (remove) Winnipeg (River Heights Central), MB;.• R3T1R3 (retire) Winnipeg (Fort Garry NE / University of Manitoba), MB;.• S3N1L3 (senile) Yorkton, SK;.• S7R0K3 (stroke) Saskatoon Northwest, SK;.• T1R1N6 (tiring) Brooks, AB;.• V1C4R5 (vicars) Cranbrook, BC;.• V1K1N6 (Viking) Merritt, BC;.• V1X3N5 (vixens) Kelowna East Central, BC;.V4G1N4 (vagina) Delta East Central, BC..Mike D’Amour is the British Columbia Bureau Chief for the Western Standard..,.mdamour@westernstandardonline.com
