A family name on East 57th Avenue, Sunset and Victoria-Fraserview
The Edwardses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Edwards at one address, 1385 East 57th Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 100 other streets too, all listed on the Edwards name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Edwardses at home
- 1
1385 East 57th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- C Edwards, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
- Oscar Edwards, a millworker at Hammonds 1940
- Richard W Edwards, a cabinetmaker 1940
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a cabinetmaker, a conductor and a millworker.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists C Edwards at 1385 East 57th 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, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway, with Oscar Edwards, a millworker at Hammonds, and Richard W Edwards, a cabinetmaker.
Today
The City no longer lists 1385 East 57th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Edwards C1385 East 57th, p. 268
- Edwards Chas cond BCER1385 East 57th, p. 178
- Edwards Oscar mlwkr Hammonds1385 East 57th, p. 179
- Edwards Richd W cbtmkr1385 East 57th, 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.