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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Isdales

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Isdale 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 Isdales 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

    1951 Collingwood Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J R Isdale, a driver 1940
    • Alex S Isdale 1940

    Next door in 1940: E G Hammond at 1921. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2195 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Miss M Isdale, a dancing 1940
    • Mary Isdale, a dancing teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Steven at 2177. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a dancing teacher and a driver.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland 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

In 1940 the directory lists J R Isdale at 1951 Collingwood Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James R Isdale there as the householder, a driver, with Alex S Isdale. In 1940 the directory lists Miss M Isdale, a dancing, at 2195 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists Mary Isdale there, a dancing teacher.

Today

2195 East Pender (2015) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1951 Collingwood, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Mrs. Rose Ellen Mitchell in the snow outside a tent house at 29th Avenue and Collingwood Street
About 1915 Mrs. Rose Ellen Mitchell in the snow outside a tent house at 29th Avenue and Collingwood Street. Not at the house at 1951 Collingwood: no archive photo of the 1900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.447. Public domain.

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 Isdales

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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 I. Want a name removed? Tell us.