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A family name on West 22nd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands and Arbutus Ridge

The Kellys

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Kelly at two addresses in 1940, all on West 22nd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Kellys at 3952 West 22nd in 1940. The directories print the name on 86 other streets too, all listed on the Kelly name's own page.

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Where the Kellys 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

    3941 West 22nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • A C Kelly, a sales manager at General Paint 1940

    Next door in 1940: L D Urquhart at 3947. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3952 West 22nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Mrs M Kelly, widow of C 1940
    • Charles S W Kelly, a warehouseman at B C Drugs 1940
    • Robert R Kelly, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation 1940
    • William E Kelly, a shipper at BC Drugs 1940

    Next door in 1940: A D Weeks at 3944 and P Nicholson at 3962. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a sales manager, a school teacher, a shipper and a warehouseman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (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 A C Kelly at 3941 West 22nd Avenue; 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 Allan C Kelly there as the householder, a sales manager at General Paint. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs M Kelly at 3952 West 22nd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Margaret Kelly there as the householder, widow of C, with Charles S W Kelly, a warehouseman at B C Drugs, Robert R Kelly, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation, and William E Kelly, a shipper at BC Drugs.

Today

3941 West 22nd and 3952 West 22nd still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Kellys

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 K. Want a name removed? Tell us.