A family name on East 22nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Blairs
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Blair at two addresses in 1940, all on East 22nd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Blairs at 754 East 22nd in 1940. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the Blair name's own page.
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Where the Blairs lived
- 1
199 East 22nd Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- T Blair, a plasterer 1940
Next door in 1940: C K Mason at 195. The block, door by door
- 2
754 East 22nd Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- G Blair, a barber 1940
- Alex K Blair, an edgerman at Glaspie Lumber 1940
- Elizabeth B A Blair, a packer at Hedlunds 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs J Crittenden at 752 and Mrs J McLaughlin at 762. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a barber, an edgerman, a packer and a plasterer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park. 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 T Blair at 199 East 22nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas Blair there as the householder, a plasterer. In 1940 the directory lists G Blair at 754 East 22nd 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 lists George Blair there as the householder, a barber, with Alex K Blair, an edgerman at Glaspie Lumber, and Elizabeth B A Blair, a packer at Hedlunds.
Today
754 East 22nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 199 East 22nd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Blair T199 East 22nd, p. 234
- Blair Thos plstr199 East 22nd, p. 52
- *Blair G754 East 22nd, p. 234
- Blair Alex K edgermn Glaspie Lbr754 East 22nd, p. 51
- Blair Eliz B A pkr Hedlunds754 East 22nd, p. 51
- Blair Geo barber754 East 22nd, p. 51
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Blairs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Blair 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.