A family name on East 21st Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Collinses
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Collins at two addresses in 1940, all on East 21st 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 Collinses at 301 East 21st in 1940. The directories print the name on 60 other streets too, all listed on the Collins name's own page.
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Where the Collinses lived
- 1
283 East 21st Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- C W Collins, a blacksmith 1940
Next door in 1940: J E Mason at 273. The block, door by door
- 2
301 East 21st Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- C W Collins 1940
- Charles F Collins, a helper for C W Collins 1940
- James W Collins, a clerk at Western Wholesale Drug 1940
Next door in 1940: T H Pegg at 307. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a clerk and a helper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Riley Park (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 C W Collins, a blacksmith, at 283 East 21st Avenue. C W Collins is listed at 301 East 21st Avenue in 1940; 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 Charles F Collins there, a helper for C W Collins, with James W Collins, a clerk at Western Wholesale Drug.
Today
301 East 21st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 283 East 21st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Collins C W blksmth283 East 21st, p. 232
- *Collins C W301 East 21st, p. 232
- Collins Chas F hlpr C W Collins301 East 21st, p. 119
- Collins Jas W clk Western Whol Drug301 East 21st, 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.