A family name on West 5th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey
The Lindsays
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Lindsay at one address, 2923 West 5th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940. The directories print the name on 40 other streets too, all listed on the Lindsay name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Lindsays at home
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2923 West 5th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- L G Lindsay, a manager at Lindsay Lumber 1940
- Margaret Lindsay, a school teacher 1940
- T Stewart Lindsay, an underwriter at Pacific Coast Fire Insurance 1940
Next door in 1940: G C Lewis at 2915 and J W Stewart at 2947. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a manager, a school teacher and an underwriter.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 L G Lindsay at 2923 West 5th 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 Lindsay G Lindsay there as the householder, a manager at Lindsay Lumber, with Margaret Lindsay, a school teacher, and T Stewart Lindsay, an underwriter at Pacific Coast Fire Insurance.
Today
2923 West 5th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Lindsay L G2923 West 5th, p. 185
- Lindsay Lindsay G mgr Lindsay Lbr2923 West 5th, p. 349
- Lindsay Margt sch tchr Van City2923 West 5th, p. 349
- Lindsay T Stewart underwriter Pac Coast Fire Ins2923 West 5th, p. 350
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Lindsays
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Lindsay 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.