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A family name on Larch Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano and Arbutus Ridge

The Greenwoods

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Greenwood at one address, 1847 Larch Street in Kitsilano, in 1940. The directories print the name on 37 other streets too, all listed on the Greenwood name's own page.

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The Greenwoods at home

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).
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    1847 Larch Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • G H Greenwood, retired 1940
    • J Alex Greenwood, a salesman at Lampman & Laidlaw 1940
    • Mrs Mary J Greenwood, proprietor of the Kitsilano Private Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs H Gaunt at 1837. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a proprietor and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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

In 1940 the directory lists G H Greenwood at 1847 Larch Street; 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 George H Greenwood there as the householder, retired, with J Alex Greenwood, a salesman at Lampman & Laidlaw, and Mrs Mary J Greenwood, proprietor of the Kitsilano Private Hospital.

Today

1847 Larch still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.

Sunday school teachers with Rev. A.H. Sovereign on the steps of St. Mark's Church
1912 Sunday school teachers with Rev. A.H. Sovereign on the steps of St. Mark's Church. Not at the house at 1847 Larch: no archive photo of the 1800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Ch P122. Public domain.

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, street section

The book of the Greenwoods

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Greenwood 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 G. Want a name removed? Tell us.