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Renfrew-Collingwood
2,580 addresses on 94 streets, in the 1940 city directory
Renfrew-Collingwood has been rebuilt: one in four of its addresses keeps a building from before 1946, where the site's other streets keep one in three. Renfrew-Collingwood's 3,985 people in the 1940 directory worked most often as laborers, salesmen and carpenters.
Who lived at each house is read on every street in 1940.
At work in 1940
The work the 1940 name section prints for the people it lists here, the most common first. Open one for some of the people who did it, each with their house.
Laborer204
- Ernest J Tickner5255 Aberdeen Street
- Albert J Tickner5010 Ann Street
- Charles T Allen4109 Atlin Street
- Edward R Rollinson3256 Austrey Avenue
- John J McLennan2576 Brock Street
And 199 more, each on their own house's page.
Salesman139
- Charles H Magnone5135 Aberdeen Street
- William A Slaney5015 Ann Street
- Howard Rushworth3381 Archimedes Street
- Charles E Vincent4326 Atlin Street
- Sid J Holt2485 Brock Street
And 134 more, each on their own house's page.
Carpenter127
- John E Dickson5126 Aberdeen Street
- George W M Taylor3226 Austrey Avenue
- Ivor Jones2511 Brock Street
- Thomas White5266 Bursill Street
- Edwin G Marshall5011 Chatham Street
And 122 more, each on their own house's page.
Driver120
- William E Tickner5255 Aberdeen Street
- Harry Payne3340 Archimedes Street
- Clarence Hughes4187 Atlin Street
- Thomas G McEwan2595 Brock Street
- Frederick J Rule5178 Bursill Street
And 115 more, each on their own house's page.
Clerk106
- Vesta A Dickson5126 Aberdeen Street
- Jean H M Sinclair5141 Ann Street
- o McPherson2506 Brock Street
- Norman C Woodbridge5407 Cecil Street
- Bernard S Cusack4927 Chatham Street
And 101 more, each on their own house's page.
Proprietor84
- Louis V Millward3334 Clive Avenue
- Henry F Burdett2591 East 20th Avenue
- Clarence A Humber2829 East 21st Avenue
- George Hunter2613 East 22nd Avenue
- Andrew S Howat2795 East 23rd Avenue
And 79 more, each on their own house's page.
Saleswoman58
- Margaret G Sinclair5141 Ann Street
- Myrtle E Myott4207 Atlin Street
- Victoria Golinski4558 Clarendon Street
- Florence Johnson2643 Duke Street
- Effie E Timmins5521 Dundee Street
And 53 more, each on their own house's page.
Stenographer58
- Margaret E Partridge5195 Aberdeen Street
- Ethel M Armitage2476 Brock Street
- Edith F Ridler5154 Chambers Street
- Duncan L Clark3307 Church Street
- Hilda Whitehead4511 Earles Street
And 53 more, each on their own house's page.
Millworker55
- Gordon J Binnie5348 Clarendon Street
- Frederick W Paint2651 Duke Street
- Thomas H Oliver4712 Earles Street
- Joseph H Jones2556 East 11th Avenue
- Stan A C Gregerson2570 East 18th Avenue
And 50 more, each on their own house's page.
Painter54
- Walter E Tucker5608 Aberdeen Street
- Edwin A C Ridler5154 Chambers Street
- James C Wilkinson2776 Cheyenne Avenue
- Thomas Spencer4659 Clarendon Street
- Thomas Somerville2677 Duke Street
And 49 more, each on their own house's page.
Helper52
- William Hoehn5212 Aberdeen Street
- George Jenkinson3225 Austrey Avenue
- David Eddy2496 Brock Street
- George S Long5138 Chambers Street
- Sam Chambers5349 Clarendon Street
And 47 more, each on their own house's page.
Mechanic50
- Garfield G McDiarmid5226 Aberdeen Street
- Edwin J Taylor3335 Archimedes Street
- Arthur E Burman3256 Clive Avenue
- James McCaughran2744 Duke Street
- A Clif Porter4641 Earles Street
And 45 more, each on their own house's page.
Moulderfive times as common as on the rest of the site's streets14
- Stan M Hatcher2750 East 16th Avenue
- William Bertram2674 East 19th Avenue
- William Dalziel3491 East 24th Avenue
- William G Patterson2461 East 28th Avenue
- Leslie F Bourne2360 East 33rd Avenue
And 9 more, each on their own house's page.
Woodworkerfive times as common as on the rest of the site's streets12
- William Krampitz5220 Chambers Street
- James Walker5221 Clarendon Street
- Fred Proctor3511 East 14th Avenue
- Thomas Bennie2559 East 19th Avenue
- Henry H Stride3007 Horley Street
And 7 more, each on their own house's page.
Fitterthree times as common as on the rest of the site's streets9
- Annie Romanchuk3217 East 18th Avenue
- Robert A MacWilliam3505 East 22nd Avenue
- Frederick W Baker5043 Highgate Street
- Llyod Dolman4595 Joyce Street
- Don C West5612 Melbourne Street
And 4 more, each on their own house's page.
16 people listed here in 1940 were on active service, in the forces.
Who they worked for
- Vancouver City103
- BC Electric Railway71
- Spencer's51
- Woodward's50
- CPR43
- BC Telephone36
- Canadian White Pine28
- BC Plywoods22
At home
1,659 of the 2,542 households the 1940 street section lists here carry its * (the directory's mark for a family member owning the house), against half on the rest of the site's streets. *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935).
Three in five of the people its name section lists here are householders (h); the rest live in someone else's house (r), as family, boarders or roomers. On the rest of the site's streets, half are householders.
Still standing
598 of the addresses here still have a building from before 1946; 1,372 were rebuilt later, and 610 are gone from the City's list. The oldest still up:
- 2678 Duke Streetbuilt 1900
- 5241 Hoy Streetbuilt 1900
- 4656 Earles Streetbuilt 1901
- 4759 Manor Streetbuilt 1901
- 3149 Ivanhoe Streetbuilt 1905
- 3192 Wellington Avenuebuilt 1905
Years built are the City's assessment records, approximate for old buildings.
In the archives
Archive photos of its streets, then three of its blocks on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, where the most still stands.
The streets
The 94 streets in Renfrew-Collingwood on the site, A to Z.
- Aberdeen Street27 addresses, eight still standing1940
- Ann Street8 addresses, four still standing1940
- Archimedes Street5 addresses, two still standing1940
- Atlin Street19 addresses, seven still standing1940
- Austrey Avenue15 addresses, four still standing1940
- Brock Streetthe 2400–2500 blocks: 13 addresses, four still standing1940
- Bursill Street7 addresses, one still standing1940
- Cecil Street11 addresses, five still standing1940
- Chambers Street17 addresses, two still standing1940
- Chatham Street18 addresses, seven still standing1940
- Cheyenne Avenue8 addresses, one still standing1940
- Church Street17 addresses, eight still standing1940
- Clarendon Streetthe 4500–4800 and 5000–5300 blocks: 40 addresses, ten still standing1940
- Clive Avenue12 addresses, one still standing1940
- College Street5 addresses1940
- Duchess Street2 addresses1940
- Duke Street24 addresses, six still standing1940
- Dundee Street14 addresses, four still standing1940
- Earles Streetthe 4500–5000, 5200–5400 and 5600 blocks: 78 addresses, 16 still standing1940
- East 10th Avenuethe 2700–2800 blocks: 9 addresses1940
- East 11th Avenuethe 2400–2500 and 3300 blocks: 10 addresses, three still standing1940
- East 12th Avenuethe 2400–2500, 2800 and 3300 blocks: 8 addresses, four still standing1940
- East 14th Avenuethe 2700–2800, 3200 and 3400–3500 blocks: 19 addresses, one still standing1940
- East 15th Avenuethe 2700–2800 blocks: 21 addresses, two still standing1940
- East 16th Avenuethe 2700–2900 and 3100 blocks: 20 addresses1940
- East 17th Avenuethe 2900–3100 blocks: 18 addresses, three still standing1940
- East 18th Avenuethe 2400–2800 and 3000–3200 blocks: 26 addresses, seven still standing1940
- East 19th Avenuethe 2400–2600, 3000 and 3200 blocks: 28 addresses, seven still standing1940
- East 20th Avenuethe 2400–2600, 2800 and 3000–3200 blocks: 36 addresses, eleven still standing1940
- East 21st Avenuethe 2400–2800 and 3000–3200 blocks: 62 addresses, twelve still standing1940
- East 22nd Avenuethe 2400–3600 blocks: 112 addresses, 21 still standing1940
- East 23rd Avenuethe 2400–2800 and 3000–3500 blocks: 74 addresses, eleven still standing1940
- East 24th Avenuethe 2400–2500, 2700–2800 and 3000–3500 blocks: 67 addresses, seven still standing1940
- East 26th Avenuethe 2400, 2700, 2900–3000 and 3200–3600 blocks: 59 addresses, 19 still standing1940
- East 27th Avenuethe 2400–2700, 2900–3400 and 3600 blocks: 90 addresses, 22 still standing1940
- East 28th Avenuethe 2400–2700 and 2900–3600 blocks: 124 addresses, 36 still standing1940
- East 29th Avenuethe 2400–2700 and 2900–3600 blocks: 88 addresses, 30 still standing1940
- East 30th Avenuethe 2300 block: 5 addresses, one still standing1940
- East 33rd Avenuethe 2300–2400 blocks: 13 addresses, two still standing1940
- East 34th Avenuethe 2300–2600 blocks: 15 addresses, three still standing1940
- East 37th Avenuethe 2300–2400 blocks: 5 addresses1940
- East 38th Avenuethe 2300–2400 blocks: 11 addresses, one still standing1940
- East 39th Avenuethe 2300–2400 blocks: 16 addresses, one still standing1940
- East 40th Avenuethe 2300–2600 blocks: 21 addresses, two still standing1940
- East 41st Avenuethe 2300 and 2500–2600 blocks: 17 addresses1940
- Euclid Avenue30 addresses, six still standing1940
- Fairmont Street26 addresses, four still standing1940
- Galt Streetthe 2400–2500 blocks: 16 addresses, three still standing1940
- Glendale Street1 address1940
- Gothard Street30 addresses, nine still standing1940
- Highgate Street16 addresses1940
- Horley Street24 addresses, seven still standing1940
- Hoy Street27 addresses, eleven still standing1940
- Ivanhoe Street8 addresses, five still standing1940
- Joyce Streetthe 4500–5400 blocks: 86 addresses, 19 still standing1940
- Kamloops Streetthe 4000 block: 5 addresses, four still standing1940
- Kaslo Streetthe 3800–4100 and 4300–4400 blocks: 17 addresses, five still standing1940
- Kerr Streetthe 5500–5600 blocks: 14 addresses, two still standing1940
- Kings Avenue6 addresses, three still standing1940
- 1940
- Lancaster Streetthe 5500–5600 blocks: 13 addresses, one still standing1940
- Lillooet Streetthe 3800 and 4000–4100 blocks: 5 addresses, one still standing1940
- Lincoln Streetthe 5400 and 5600 blocks: 5 addresses, two still standing1940
- Manor Street33 addresses, eleven still standing1940
- McHardy Street9 addresses, four still standing1940
- McKinnon Streetthe 5400 and 5600 blocks: 7 addresses1940
- Melbourne Street5 addresses, one still standing1940
- Monmouth Avenue20 addresses, seven still standing1940
- Moscrop Street4 addresses1940
- Moss Street53 addresses, 22 still standing1940
- Nanaimo Streetthe 2600, 3300, 3600, 3900, 4200, 4600–4800, 5100, 5400 and 5600 blocks: 34 addresses, nine still standing1940
- Nootka Streetthe 3200–3300, 3600 and 3800–4100 blocks: 17 addresses, six still standing1940
- Ormidale Streetthe 5400–5600 blocks: 15 addresses, two still standing1940
- Payne Street11 addresses, three still standing1940
- Picton Street7 addresses, one still standing1940
- Price Street35 addresses, five still standing1940
- Rae Avenue10 addresses1940
- Ravine Street7 addresses, two still standing1940
- Reid Street17 addresses, eight still standing1940
- Renfrew Streetthe 2500–2600, 2800–3400 and 3600–3700 blocks: 34 addresses, five still standing1940
- Rhodes Streetthe 5100–5500 blocks: 13 addresses, two still standing1940
- Ruby Street15 addresses, two still standing1940
- Rupert Streetthe 2600, 2900, 3200–5200 and 5500–5600 blocks: 110 addresses, 31 still standing1940
- Slocan Streetthe 3200–3300, 3500 and 3700–5300 blocks: 105 addresses, 34 still standing1940
- Spencer Street26 addresses, 14 still standing1940
- Stamford Street7 addresses, two still standing1940
- Tanner Street19 addresses, three still standing1940
- Taunton Street16 addresses, four still standing1940
- Tyne Streetthe 5400–5600 blocks: 9 addresses, one still standing1940
- Vanness Avenuethe 2900–3600 blocks: 60 addresses, seven still standing1940
- Wales Streetthe 5000–5600 blocks: 21 addresses, five still standing1940
- Ward Street17 addresses, four still standing1940
- Wellington Avenue49 addresses, 13 still standing1940
- Windermere Streetthe 3800–4000 blocks: 8 addresses1940
What the directory left out
The 1940 directory printed “Orientals” at three doors in Renfrew-Collingwood instead of the residents' names. Its canvassers often didn't take down Chinese, Japanese and other residents' names, so the people at those doors can't be named or counted from it. Each door is on its street's page, as printed.
Next door
Hastings-Sunrise, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Killarney and Victoria-Fraserview.