 The Chinatown part of the street links the junction of Telok Ayer Street and Amoy Street towards Cecil Street, and for the Shenton Way part linking from Shenton Way to Cecil Street.The street was one of the new streets declared as a public street in 1895 when the area from Robinson Road to Raffles Quay was levelled and drained.It is named after Major Henry McCallum, Colonial engineer in the 1890s.