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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Patiences

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Patience at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: five Patiences at 935 Woodland Drive in 1940.

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Where the Patiences 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

    1893 Pendrell Street

    West End, 1940

    • William Patience, a machinist 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M E Simmonds at 1877. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    935 Woodland Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs G Patience, widow of J 1940
    • David Patience, a bracer at G N Dock 1940
    • James Patience, a longshoreman 1940
    • John Patience, a bookkeeper at Canadian Stevedoring 1940
    • Mary Patience, a comptroller operator 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Smid at 937. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a bookkeeper, a bracer, a comptroller operator, a longshoreman and a machinist. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and West End. 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 William Patience at 1893 Pendrell Street, a machinist. Mrs G Patience is listed at 935 Woodland 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 Georgina Patience there as the householder, widow of J, with David Patience, a bracer at G N Dock, James Patience, a longshoreman, John Patience, a bookkeeper at Canadian Stevedoring, and Mary Patience, a comptroller operator.

Today

The City no longer lists 1893 Pendrell and 935 Woodland Drive, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Patiences

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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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.