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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Baileys

In the city directories 1940 · 94 addresses on 75 streets

The directories print the Bailey name at 94 addresses on 75 streets in 1940, in 19 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Baileys lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. West End11 addresses
  2. Downtown10 addresses
  3. Fairview10 addresses
  4. Kitsilano9 addresses
  5. Mount Pleasant9 addresses
  6. Renfrew-Collingwood7 addresses
  7. Grandview-Woodland6 addresses
  8. Kensington-Cedar Cottage5 addresses
  9. Dunbar-Southlands4 addresses
  10. Hastings-Sunrise4 addresses
  11. Marpole4 addresses
  12. Shaughnessy4 addresses
  13. Strathcona3 addresses
  14. Arbutus Ridge2 addresses
  15. Sunset2 addresses
  16. Kerrisdale1 address
  17. Riley Park1 address
  18. Victoria-Fraserview1 address
  19. West Point Grey1 address

Where the name was printed

The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.

  1. 1
    Granville StreetFour addresses in Downtown and Marpole; five people: N R Bailey, G H Bailey and George Bailey, and two more
    1940
  2. 2
    West 13th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview; three people: E A Bailey, R J Bailey and Ina Bailey
    1940
  3. 3
    West 8th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; four people: Mrs A M Bailey, Mrs E Bailey and Alice T Bailey, and one more
    1940
  4. 4
    East 28th AvenueTwo addresses in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood; two people: A Bailey and Eleanor R Bailey
    1940
  5. 5
    East 3rd AvenueTwo addresses in Grandview-Woodland; two people: G Bailey and Charles A Bailey
    1940
  6. 6
    East Georgia StreetTwo addresses in Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise; two people: Mrs E F Bailey and B H Bailey
    1940
  7. 7
    Haro StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: Bailey (no first name printed) and Wilfred J Bailey
    1940
  8. 8
    Nelson StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: G Bailey and Doris Bailey
    1940
  9. 9
    Robson StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: Edgar F Bailey and William Bailey
    1940
  10. 10
    Triumph StreetTwo addresses in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise; two people: E C Bailey and H C Bailey
    1940
  11. 11
    West 10th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant and Fairview; three people: Mrs S Bailey, Thomas P Bailey and William Bailey
    1940
  12. 12
    West 14th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; three people: Mrs M J Bailey, R E Bailey and Emerson Bailey
    1940

63 more streets, by name: Abbott Street (1), Aberdeen Street (1), Adanac Street (1), Angus Drive (1), Balaclava Street (1), Barclay Street (1), Bayswater Street (1), Beach Avenue (1), Davie Street (1), Dunbar Street (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 11th Avenue (1), East 15th Avenue (1), East 20th Avenue (1), East 27th Avenue (1), East 44th Avenue (1), East 6th Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (1), East 8th Avenue (1), East Hastings Street (1), Frances Street (1), Graveley Street (1), Hamilton Street (1), Hemlock Street (1), Holland Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Hudson Street (1), Jervis Street (1), John Street (1), Kingsway (1), Maxwell Street (1), McGill Street (1), Melville Street (1), North Nanaimo Street (1), Osler Street (1), Pacific Street (1), Powell Street (1), Prince Albert Street (1), Quebec Street (1), Ravine Street (1), Renfrew Street (1), Richards Street (1), Richelieu Avenue (1), Spruce Street (1), Tanner Street (1), Victoria Drive (1), Walnut Street (1), Wellington Avenue (1), Welwyn Street (1), West 15th Avenue (2), West 20th Avenue (1), West 21st Avenue (1), West 2nd Avenue (1), West 33rd Avenue (1), West 35th Avenue (2), West 37th Avenue (1), West 45th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 57th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (2), West Hastings Street (1), West Pender Street (1), Yew Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 94 addresses, 33 still have their buildings from before 1946, 17 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 44; each street's page names them.

The book of the Baileys

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under B. Want a name removed? Tell us.