A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Neates
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Neate at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Neates lived
- 1
3182 Adanac Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- Harry Neate, a driver at Active Trading 1940
Next door in 1940: A C Grist at 3170 and J P Sammon at 3190. The block, door by door
- 2
3076 Clark Drive
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J N Neate, a packer at Cave & Co 1940
Next door in 1940: T Ellis at 3054. The block, door by door
- 3
231 West 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Winifred Neate, a school teacher 1940
Next door in 1940: A J Searle at 221. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a driver, a packer and a school teacher.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise, 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 Harry Neate at 3182 Adanac Street, a driver at Active Trading. J N Neate is listed at 3076 Clark Drive 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 Jack N Neate there as the householder, a packer at Cave & Co. The 1940 name section lists Winifred Neate at 231 West 11th Avenue, a school teacher.
Today
3182 Adanac and 3076 Clark Drive still have their buildings from before 1946; for 231 West 11th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Neate Harry drvr Active Trading3182 Adanac, p. 454
- *Neate J N3076 Clark Drive, p. 31
- Neate Jack N pkr Cave & Co3076 Clark Drive, p. 454
- Neate Winifred sch tchr Van City231 West 11th, p. 454
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Neates
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Neate 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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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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.