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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bagshaws

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Bagshaw at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Bagshaws lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    6926 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • F Bagshaw, an engineer at McKenzie Barge & Derrick 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Branch at 6908 and A B Hunter at 6942. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4607 Puget Drive

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • R M Bagshaw, a chart accountant at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: B M Millner at 4625. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a chart accountant and an engineer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.

The story, address by address

In 1940 the directory lists F Bagshaw, a consulting engineer, at 6926 Angus Drive; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank Bagshaw there, an engineer at McKenzie Barge & Derrick. In 1940 the directory lists R M Bagshaw at 4607 Puget Drive; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Ralph M Bagshaw there as the householder, a chart accountant at UBC.

Today

4607 Puget Drive (1993) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 6926 Angus Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 6926 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 6900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Bagshaws

Every directory, as one book

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under B. Want a name removed? Tell us.