A family name on Balsam Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano and Arbutus Ridge
The Collinses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Collins at one address, 5311 Balsam Street in Arbutus Ridge, in 1940. The directories print the name on 60 other streets too, all listed on the Collins name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Collinses at home
Ridge
- 1
5311 Balsam Street
Arbutus Ridge, 1940
- L H Collins, a manager at Moody Shingle 1940
- Adrienne E Collins, a student at UBC 1940
- Rosemary R Collins, a student at UBC 1940
Next door in 1940: A McC Creery at 5337. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a manager. Two of them worked for UBC.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Arbutus Ridge. 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 L H Collins at 5311 Balsam Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lionel H Collins there as the householder, a manager at Moody Shingle, with Adrienne E Collins, a student at UBC, and Rosemary R Collins, a student at UBC.
Today
5311 Balsam (1988) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Collins L H5311 Balsam, p. 8
- Collins Adrienne E studt UBC5311 Balsam, p. 119
- Collins Lionel H mgr Moody Shingle5311 Balsam, p. 120
- Collins Rosemary R studt UBC5311 Balsam, p. 120
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Collinses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Collins 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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.