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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bladeses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Blades at two addresses in 1940 in Kitsilano. 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 Bladeses 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

    1485 Maple Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J W Blades 1940
    • Gwynneth M Blades, a clerk at Griffin Montgomery Smith 1940
  2. 2

    2375 West 2nd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Wholesale Blades, a wholesale confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: T T Trevor at 2365 and C Reid at 2385. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a wholesale confectioner.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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 J W Blades at 1485 Maple Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Gwynneth M Blades there, a clerk at Griffin Montgomery Smith. The 1940 name section lists Wholesale Blades at 2375 West 2nd Avenue, a wholesale confectioner.

Today

The City no longer lists 1485 Maple and 2375 West 2nd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Women beside a car on unpaved Maple Street, among them Maud Boscawen Matthews, with a plank sidewalk beside it
1912 Women beside a car on unpaved Maple Street, among them Maud Boscawen Matthews, with a plank sidewalk beside it. Not at the house at 1485 Maple: no archive photo of the 1400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P90.08. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Bladeses

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.