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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cails

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Cail at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. 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: five Cails at 2142 East 13th in 1940.

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Where the Cails 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

    2142 East 13th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • F E Cail, retired 1940
    • Albert B Cail, a carpenter 1940
    • Clyde O Cail, a lather 1940
    • Helen F Cail 1940
    • John S Cail, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940

    Next door in 1940: J F Cashman at 2140 and S Greveling at 2150. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1872 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Russell E Cail, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: E W Chappell at 1864 and Miss H L Murphy at 1876. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a carpenter, a lather, a millworker and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Kitsilano. 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 F E Cail at 2142 East 13th 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 Frederick E Cail there as the householder, retired, with Albert B Cail, a carpenter, Clyde O Cail, a lather, Helen F Cail, and John S Cail, a millworker at BC Plywoods. The 1940 name section lists Russell E Cail at 1872 West 3rd Avenue, a salesman.

Today

2142 East 13th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1872 West 3rd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Cails

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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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.