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A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Greenwoods

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Greenwood at three addresses in 1940, all on West 1st 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 37 other streets too, all listed on the Greenwood name's own page.

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Where the Greenwoods 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

    2033 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • S W Greenwood, a druggist 1940

    Next door in 1940: R K Lee at 2031 and mohawk lodge at 2035. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2331 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W N Greenwood, a president at Greenwood Drug & Paper Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E P Towl at 2325 and Mrs E L Agnew at 2333. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3562 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Arthur Greenwood, a postman 1940

    Next door in 1940: A E Marett at 3556. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a druggist, a postman and a president.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (3). 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 S W Greenwood at 2033 West 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sam W Greenwood there as the householder, a druggist. In 1940 the directory lists W N Greenwood at 2331 West 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Wilbur N Greenwood there as the householder, a president at Greenwood Drug & Paper Co.

The 1940 name section lists Arthur Greenwood at 3562 West 1st Avenue, a postman.

Today

3562 West 1st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2033 West 1st and 2331 West 1st, 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.
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.