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A family name on West Hastings Street, Downtown

The Collinses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Collins at two addresses in 1940, all on West Hastings Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. 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

    603 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J C Collins, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: Post Fund Last at 601 and Pitman's Optical House at 605. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1195 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • James Collins, a seaman 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Bellerieve at 1191. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a music teacher and a seaman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (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 J C Collins, a music teacher, at 603 West Hastings Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists J Chan Collins there, a music teacher. The 1940 name section lists James Collins at 1195 West Hastings Street, a seaman.

Today

The City no longer lists 603 West Hastings and 1195 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Hastings Street looking east from Granville on 1 July 1888, with flags strung across it and the Alfred Bunker building on the corner
1 July 1888 Hastings Street looking east from Granville on 1 July 1888, with flags strung across it and the Alfred Bunker building on the corner. Taken where the 600 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 603 West Hastings. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P127. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Collinses

Every directory, as one book

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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.