A family name on East 14th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Blacks
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Black at one address, 1778 East 14th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 87 other streets too, all listed on the Black name's own page.
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The Blacks at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1778 East 14th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- C W Black, a cleaner 1940
- F Aileen Black, a bookkeeper at the News Herald 1940
Next door in 1940: G Waite at 1762 and J Gane at 1784. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a bookkeeper and a cleaner.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 C W Black at 1778 East 14th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles W Black there as the householder, a cleaner, with F Aileen Black, a bookkeeper at the News Herald.
Today
1778 East 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Black C W1778 East 14th, p. 214
- Black Chas W clnr 1207 Robson1778 East 14th, p. 50
- Black F Aileen bkpr News Herald1778 East 14th, p. 50
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Blacks
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Black 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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Another name, or a house
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.