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A family name on Inverness Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset

The Davieses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Davies at two addresses in 1940, all on Inverness Street, with the close spelling Davis. 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 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

    3875 Inverness Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Elizabeth Davis, widow of F H 1940

    Next door in 1940: T A Moynes at 3867 and E J Summers at 3891. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    7204 Inverness Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • C A Davies, a stone polisher 1940

    Next door in 1940: H G Harris at 7216. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a stone polisher. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset. 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 Elizabeth Davis at 3875 Inverness Street, widow of F H. C A Davies is listed at 7204 Inverness Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Cecil A Davies there as the householder, a stone polisher.

Today

3875 Inverness still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; 7204 Inverness (1969) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Davieses

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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.