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A family name on Point Grey Road, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

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 Point Grey Road. 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

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

    3259 Point Grey Road

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Percy P Lewis, an acting secretary at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Tom at 3257. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3642 Point Grey Road

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A W Lewis, a president at Lewis Tug Boat Co 1940
    • Patricia J Lewis, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: R M Mather at 3636 and jericho lodge at 3648. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an acting secretary and a president.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Percy P Lewis at 3259 Point Grey Road, an acting secretary at the BC Electric Railway. A W Lewis is listed at 3642 Point Grey Road 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 lists Allan W Lewis there as the householder, a president at Lewis Tug Boat Co, with Patricia J Lewis, a student.

Today

3642 Point Grey Road still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3259 Point Grey Road, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road
About 1912 A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road. Not at the house at 3642 Point Grey Road: no archive photo of the 3600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P113.3. 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Lewises

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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.