A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Liases
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Lias at one address, 1971 Kitchener Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.
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The Liases at home
Woodland
- 1
1971 Kitchener Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- W J Lias, a janitor at the Sun 1940
- Irene M Lias, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: J F Manning at 1955 and F W Toles at 1995. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a janitor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 W J Lias at 1971 Kitchener Street; 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 William J Lias there as the householder, a janitor at the Sun, with Irene M Lias, a student.
Today
The City no longer lists 1971 Kitchener, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Lias W J1971 Kitchener, p. 99
- Lias Irene M studt1971 Kitchener, p. 348
- Lias Wm J jntr Sun1971 Kitchener, p. 348
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Liases
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Lias 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.