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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Peats

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Peat 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 Peats 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

    2125 East 34th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • T W Peat, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Galston at 2111 and H Volp at 2133. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1295 West 11th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • P J Peatt, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J M McFarlane at 1285. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5610 Yew Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • T Peat, in coal and wood 1940
    • Margaret P Peat, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Foulds at 5626. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a coal and wood, an operator and a ward assistant.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge, Fairview and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 T W Peat at 2125 East 34th 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 Thomas W Peat there as the householder, retired, with Thomas W Peat, retired. The 1940 name section lists P J Peatt at 1295 West 11th Avenue, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital, with P J Peatt, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital.

T Peat, in coal and wood, is listed at 5610 Yew Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Peat there, in coal and wood, with Thomas Peat, in coal and wood, Margaret P Peat, an operator at the BC Telephone, and Margaret P Peat, an operator at the BC Telephone.

Today

2125 East 34th (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1295 West 11th and 5610 Yew, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park
About 1910 Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park. Not at the house at 5610 Yew: no archive photo of the 5600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1376-80.43. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 10 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Peats

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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.