A family name on West 28th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge
The Blacks
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Black at one address, 3205 West 28th Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, 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
Southlands
- 1
3205 West 28th Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- H A Black, a water rates collector at the City of Vancouver 1940
- Doug A Black 1940
Next door in 1940: W A Ashby at 3215. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a water rates collector.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 H A Black at 3205 West 28th 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 Harry A Black there as the householder, a water rates collector at the City of Vancouver, with Doug A Black.
Today
The City no longer lists 3205 West 28th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Black H A3205 West 28th, p. 244
- Black Doug A3205 West 28th, p. 50
- Black Harry A water rates collr Van City3205 West 28th, 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.