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A family name on West 13th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

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 West 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

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1066 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Milton C Edwards, who worked for Canadian Westinghouse 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Crawford at 1056 and R McDonald at 1076. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1165 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Marjory Edwards, a typist at H R MacMillan Export 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Lotzkar at 1155 and Mrs A M Whalen at 1175. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3424 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J S H Edwards, a district manager at S & M Lamp and a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: W McRae at 3412 and Mrs E Hampson at 3432. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a district manager and a typist.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Kitsilano. 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 Milton C Edwards at 1066 West 13th Avenue, who worked for Canadian Westinghouse. The 1940 name section lists Marjory Edwards at 1165 West 13th Avenue, a typist at H R MacMillan Export. In 1940 the directory lists J S H Edwards at 3424 West 13th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists James S H Edwards there as the householder, a district manager at S & M Lamp and a manufacturers agent.

Today

1066 West 13th (1975), 1165 West 13th (1965) and 3424 West 13th (2018) have newer buildings, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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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.