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A family name on Knight Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Victoria-Fraserview and Sunset

The Collinses

In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address

The directories print one person named Collins at one address, 4873 Knight Street in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 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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The Collinses at home

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).
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    4873 Knight Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • William Collins, a pipe fitter 1940

    Next door in 1940: W G Middleton at 4851. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for the one person: a pipe fitter.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Collins at 4873 Knight Street, a pipe fitter.

Today

4873 Knight (1972) has a newer building, by the City's record.

George, a young man in a bowler hat, standing in a yard on Knight Road (now Knight Street) in Cedar Cottage
November 1907 George, a young man in a bowler hat, standing in a yard on Knight Road (now Knight Street) in Cedar Cottage. Not at the house at 4873 Knight: no archive photo of the 4800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 330-4. Public domain.

Every line as printed

The line printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.