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A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Harrises

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Harris at two addresses in 1940, all on Kingsway, with the close spelling Harries. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 115 other streets too, all listed on the Harris name's own page.

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Where the Harrises 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

    1397 Kingsway

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • S S Harris, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Ideal Fish & Chips at 1395. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1477 Kingsway

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • H Harris, proprietor of Harry's Corner 1940
    • Winifred Harris, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: B Lingren at 1471 and W B Gilby at 1497. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2). 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 S Harris, a barber, at 1397 Kingsway. H Harris is listed at 1477 Kingsway 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 Harry Harris there as the householder, proprietor of Harry's Corner, with Winifred Harris, a saleswoman at Woodward's.

Today

The City no longer lists 1397 Kingsway and 1477 Kingsway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

People in open cars gathered for a car rally on Kingsway
1913 People in open cars gathered for a car rally on Kingsway. Not at the house at 1477 Kingsway: no archive photo of the 1400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-2294. 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 Harrises

Every directory, as one book

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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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.