A family name on East 11th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Lewises
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Lewis at two addresses in 1940, all on East 11th Avenue. 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 99 other streets too, all listed on the Lewis name's own page.
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Where the Lewises lived
- 1
630 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Reginald Lewis, who worked for Western Cereal 1940
Next door in 1940: R Wilson at 624 and L J Martin at 642. The block, door by door
- 2
1757 East 11th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- E Lewis, a belt maker 1940
- Yvonne J Lewis 1940
Next door in 1940: H E Lysell at 1755 and H Robinson at 1759. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a belt maker and an employee.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. 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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Reginald Lewis at 630 East 11th Avenue, who worked for Western Cereal. E Lewis is listed at 1757 East 11th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Edward Lewis there as the householder, a belt maker, with Yvonne J Lewis.
Today
630 East 11th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1757 East 11th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Lewis Regd emp Western Cereal630 East 11th, p. 347
- Lewis E1757 East 11th, p. 203
- Lewis Edw belt mkr1757 East 11th, p. 347
- Lewis Yvonne J1757 East 11th, p. 348
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Lewises
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Lewis 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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Another name, or a house
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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.