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

The Davieses

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Davies at three addresses in 1940, all on Prince Albert 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: five Davieses at 6151 Prince Albert 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

    5250 Prince Albert Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C Davis, a painter 1940

    Next door in 1940: R J Guilfoyle at 5238. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6151 Prince Albert Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • Mrs A W Davis, widow of S H 1940
    • Evelyn W Davis, a packer 1940
    • Marion A Davis, a saleswoman at Fraser Bakery 1940
    • Nevill Davis, a driver at the Country Freight Lines 1940
    • Verdun L Davis, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Jones at 6139 and J A Thompson at 6163. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    6434 Prince Albert Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • Mrs Gertrude Davies, of Gertie's Coffee Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs H Bramwell at 6414 and S J Prince at 6464. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a driver, a laborer, a packer, a painter and a saleswoman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Sunset (2) 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 C Davis at 5250 Prince Albert Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles Davis there as the householder, a painter. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs A W Davis at 6151 Prince Albert Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Alice W Davis there as the householder, widow of S H, with Evelyn W Davis, a packer, Marion A Davis, a saleswoman at Fraser Bakery, Nevill Davis, a driver at the Country Freight Lines, and Verdun L Davis, a laborer at Canadian White Pine.

The 1940 name section lists Mrs Gertrude Davies at 6434 Prince Albert Street, of Gertie's Coffee Shop.

Today

5250 Prince Albert (1980), 6151 Prince Albert (1994) and 6434 Prince Albert (2013) 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

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.