A family name on West 20th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge
The Davieses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Davies at one address, 395 West 20th Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spelling Davis. The directories print the name on 176 other streets too, all listed on the Davies name's own page.
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The Davieses at home
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395 West 20th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- F S Davies, an utilityman at the Vancouver Parks Board 1940
- F Victor C Davies, a messenger at the CPR 1940
- John T C Davies, a stenographer at the CPR 1940
Next door in 1940: H S Duncan at 385. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a messenger, a stenographer and an utilityman. Two of them worked for CPR.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 F S Davies at 395 West 20th Avenue; 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 Frederick S Davies there as the householder, an utilityman at the Vancouver Parks Board, with F Victor C Davies, a messenger at the CPR, and John T C Davies, a stenographer at the CPR.
Today
395 West 20th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1930 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Davies F S395 West 20th, p. 230
- Davies F Victor C msngr CPR395 West 20th, p. 150
- Davies Fredk S utilitymn Van Pks Bd395 West 20th, p. 150
- Davies John T C sten CPR395 West 20th, p. 150
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Davieses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Davies name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.