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A family name on East 45th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney

The Boyds

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Boyd at three addresses in 1940, all on East 45th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Boyds at 412 East 45th in 1940. The directories print the name on 65 other streets too, all listed on the Boyd name's own page.

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Where the Boyds 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

    412 East 45th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Mrs E P Boyd, widow of H C 1940
    • Constance M Boyd, a clerk at Woodward's 1940
    • H Don Boyd, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Wicks at 406 and A McVicar at 420. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3650 East 45th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • W Boyd, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: W McL Paton at 3628 and J Kerr at 3658. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3680 East 45th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • J Boyd, a patternmaker at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940

    Next door in 1940: F E Smith at 3666. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a clerk, a millworker, a patternmaker and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Killarney (2) and Sunset. 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 Mrs E P Boyd at 412 East 45th 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 Edna P Boyd there as the householder, widow of H C, with Constance M Boyd, a clerk at Woodward's, and H Don Boyd, a millworker at BC Plywoods. In 1940 the directory lists W Boyd at 3650 East 45th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William Boyd there as the householder, a salesman.

In 1940 the directory lists J Boyd at 3680 East 45th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John Boyd there as the householder, a patternmaker at the Burrard Dry Dock.

Today

3650 East 45th (1968) and 3680 East 45th (1989) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 412 East 45th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.