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A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Davieses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Davies at four addresses in 1940, all on East 8th 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 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

    110 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Davies 1940
    • Mrs Theresa Davies, a laundress at I X L Laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Mason at 106 and 6 listings at 124. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    906 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Don E Davis, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: A E Eckardt at 918. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1655 East 8th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W J Davis 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Wright at 1645. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1955 East 8th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • H R Davies, an auto operator at the CN Telegraphs 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Edwards at 1951 and T W Reece at 1969. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: an auto operator, a laundress and a music teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Mount Pleasant (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 Mrs Davies at 110 East 8th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Theresa Davies there as the householder, a laundress at I X L Laundry. The 1940 name section lists Don E Davis at 906 East 8th Avenue, a music teacher.

W J Davis is listed at 1655 East 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William J Davis there as the householder. H R Davies is listed at 1955 East 8th 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 Harold R Davies there as the householder, an auto operator at the CN Telegraphs.

Today

1955 East 8th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 110 East 8th and 906 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred); for 1655 East 8th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

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, street section

The book of the Davieses

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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.