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A family name on West 10th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Collinses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Collins at three addresses in 1940, all on West 10th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Collinses at 4020 West 10th 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

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

    356 West 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Zella Collins, a lecturer at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: W S Neville at 334 and J W Mackay at 364. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2250 West 10th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs A Collins, widow of G H 1940

    Next door in 1940: Canning Bestovall at 2244 and Mrs A Vincent at 2256. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4020 West 10th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • R F Collins, a meat cutter at Woodward's 1940
    • Frederick W Collins, a machinist operator at American Can 1940
    • Grace Collins, a clerk at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: A W Johnston at 4014 and A G McNeill at 4024. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a clerk, a lecturer, a machinist operator and a meat cutter. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Zella Collins at 356 West 10th Avenue, a lecturer at UBC. Mrs A Collins is listed at 2250 West 10th 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 lists Amelia Collins there as the householder, widow of G H.

R F Collins is listed at 4020 West 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Robert F Collins there as the householder, a meat cutter at Woodward's, with Frederick W Collins, a machinist operator at American Can, and Grace Collins, a clerk at Spencer's.

Today

356 West 10th and 4020 West 10th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2250 West 10th, 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.