A family name on East 13th Avenue, Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Edwardses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Edwards at three addresses in 1940, all on East 13th Avenue. 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 100 other streets too, all listed on the Edwards name's own page.
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Where the Edwardses lived
- 1
569 East 13th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- C Edwards 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs A I Wismer at 563 and J Mearns at 589. The block, door by door
- 2
743 East 13th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Nathaniel Edwards, an engineer 1940
Next door in 1940: H B Strand at 737 and R R Marshall at 747. The block, door by door
- 3
1643 East 13th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- L R Edwards, a police officer at the Union Steamship Company 1940
Next door in 1940: J J Hattrick at 1623 and W A Boyd at 1649. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an engineer and a police officer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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 Edwards at 569 East 13th 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 Charles Edwards there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Nathaniel Edwards at 743 East 13th Avenue, an engineer.
L R Edwards is listed at 1643 East 13th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Lloyd R Edwards there as the householder, a police officer at the Union Steamship Company.
Today
743 East 13th (1992) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 569 East 13th and 1643 East 13th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Edwards C569 East 13th, p. 210
- Edwards Chas569 East 13th, p. 178
- Edwards Nathl eng743 East 13th, p. 179
- Edwards L R1643 East 13th, p. 211
- Edwards Lloyd R police USS1643 East 13th, p. 179
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Edwardses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Edwards 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 E. Want a name removed? Tell us.