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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Forwards

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Forward at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Forwards 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

    1423 Howe Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • D Forward, rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Fletcher at 1427. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4058 West 17th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • E D Forward, a superintendent community centre at the St Andrews-Wesley United Church 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs B Stewart at 4054 and F W Switzer at 4064. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a superintendent community centre.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Dunbar-Southlands. 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 D Forward, rooms to let, at 1423 Howe Street. E D Forward is listed at 4058 West 17th Avenue in 1940; 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 E Don Forward there as the householder, a superintendent community centre at the St Andrews-Wesley United Church.

Today

4058 West 17th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1937 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1423 Howe, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Forwards

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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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.