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A family name on East 14th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Davieses

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at four addresses

The directories print seven people named Davies at four addresses in 1940, all on East 14th Avenue, with the close spelling Davis. 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 Davieses at 228 East 14th in 1940. The directories print the name on 176 other streets too, all listed on the Davies name's own page.

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Where the Davieses lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    228 East 14th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs L Davies, widow of J 1940
    • Jane A Davies, a packer at Hedlunds 1940
    • Margaret R Davies 1940

    Next door in 1940: F S Green at 226 and B C Ovens at 230. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    817 East 14th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • F Davis, a cleaner at the Stock Exchange Building 1940
    • Eva M Davis 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Harper at 823. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1040 East 14th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • John Davies, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940

    Next door in 1940: P J Simmonds at 1036 and F A Matheson at 1048. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1661 East 14th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs E Davis 1940

    Next door in 1940: L D Woodcock at 1657 and commercial apts at 1675. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the seven: a cleaner, a millworker and a packer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3) and 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

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs L Davies at 228 East 14th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lottie Davies there as the householder, widow of J, with Jane A Davies, a packer at Hedlunds, and Margaret R Davies. In 1940 the directory lists F Davis at 817 East 14th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Frank Davis there as the householder, a cleaner at the Stock Exchange Building, with Eva M Davis.

The 1940 name section lists John Davies at 1040 East 14th Avenue, a millworker at BC Plywoods. Mrs E Davis is listed at 1661 East 14th Avenue in 1940.

Today

817 East 14th and 1040 East 14th still have their buildings from before 1946; 228 East 14th (1995) and 1661 East 14th (1988) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 9 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.