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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Coasts

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Coast at four addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Coasts 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

    75 Alexander Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Bindery Coast 1940

    Next door in 1940: Surrey Prod at 73 and Skinner Thos & Son at 81. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1866 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Eric J Coast, a shipper at Hughes Tile 1940

    Next door in 1940: D McGeer at 1856 and D Langfield at 1876. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2083 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Hardplys Coast, in woodworkers 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W L Mills at 2079 and Pitts (no first name printed) at 2085. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    837 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Sawmills Coast 1940

    Next door in 1940: V E K Weldie at 833. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a shipper and a woodworkers.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and 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 Bindery Coast at 75 Alexander Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Eric J Coast at 1866 West 12th Avenue, a shipper at Hughes Tile. In 1940 the directory lists Hardplys Coast at 2083 West 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Hardplys Coast there, in woodworkers.

In 1940 the directory lists Sawmills Coast at 837 West Hastings Street.

Today

75 Alexander still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 837 West Hastings (1998) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1866 West 12th and 2083 West 4th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Coasts

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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.