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A family name on Main Street, Riley Park, Strathcona, Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

The Davieses

In the city directories 1940 · eleven people at seven addresses

The directories print eleven people named Davies at seven addresses in 1940, all on Main Street, 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 4303 Main 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

    700 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Ben Davis, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Service Tobacco Stand at 714. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    917 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • I Davies, a boilermaker 1940
    • William Davies 1940

    Next door in 1940: Better 'Ole (The) at 915 and Machinery Jobbing & Junk Co at 925. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    956 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Thomas Davies, a waiter at the Dodson Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Western Feed Co at 946 and Atlantic Junk Co at 958. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2506 Main Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Miss M E Davies, a dressmaker 1940
    • Mary E Davies, a dressmaker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Can Window Bkries at 2504 and Broadway Theatre at 2512. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    4077 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A E L Davies, in real estate 1940

    Next door in 1940: Yamato Drsmkrs & Clnrs at 4069 and T S Rogers at 4095. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    4303 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W G Davies, a shipper at Vancouver Pacific Paper 1940
    • Mrs E R Davies, widow of W G 1940
    • William C Davies 1940

    Next door in 1940: C J Devlin at 4301 and Press Boden at 4305. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    7737 Main Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • A F Davies, a barber at McNeil's System 1940

    Next door in 1940: W D Fearn at 7707 and E McN Adams at 7747. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the eleven: a barber, a boilermaker, a dressmaker, a shipper and a waiter. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (3), Riley Park (2), Mount Pleasant 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 Ben Davis at 700 Main Street, retired. The 1940 name section lists I Davies at 917 Main Street, a boilermaker, with William Davies. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Davies at 956 Main Street, a waiter at the Dodson Hotel.

Miss M E Davies, a dressmaker, is listed at 2506 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mary E Davies there, a dressmaker. A E L Davies, in real estate, is listed at 4077 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists A. E. L. Davies there.

Mrs E R Davies is listed at 4303 Main Street in 1940. In 1940 the listing there is W G Davies. The 1940 name section lists Walter G Davies there as the householder, a shipper at Vancouver Pacific Paper, with Edith R Davies, widow of W G, and William C Davies.

In 1940 the directory lists A F Davies at 7737 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists A Frank Davies there as the householder, a barber at McNeil's System.

Today

917 Main, 956 Main, 4303 Main and 7737 Main still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 700 Main, 2506 Main and 4077 Main, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 4303 Main: no archive photo of the 4300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 15 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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.