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A family name on West 32nd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Bairds

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Baird at two addresses in 1940, all on West 32nd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Baird name's own page.

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Where the Bairds lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3224 West 32nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W B Baird, a branch agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: G F Mohr at 3212 and J Little at 3250. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4047 West 32nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • T W Baird, a salesman at Begg Motors 1940
    • Dorothy Baird, a stenographer at Peoples Credit Jewellers 1940

    Next door in 1940: L A Hunter at 4033 and L A Whaley at 4053. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a branch agent, a salesman and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2). 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 W B Baird at 3224 West 32nd Avenue; 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 William B Baird there as the householder, a branch agent. In 1940 the directory lists T W Baird at 4047 West 32nd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Thomas W Baird there as the householder, a salesman at Begg Motors, with Dorothy Baird, a stenographer at Peoples Credit Jewellers.

Today

4047 West 32nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1939 by the City's record; 3224 West 32nd (2011) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Bairds

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Baird name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.