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A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Reeds

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Reed at one address, 3588 Kingsway in Renfrew-Collingwood, in 1940. The directories print the name on 42 other streets too, all listed on the Reed name's own page.

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The Reeds at home

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).
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    3588 Kingsway

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • T S Reed, of Reed's Grocery 1940
    • Benson A Reed, of Reed's Grocery 1940
    • Mrs L Jean Reed, proprietor of Jean's Beauty Shoppe 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 S Reed at 3588 Kingsway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas S Reed there as the householder, of Reed's Grocery, with Benson A Reed, of Reed's Grocery, and Mrs L Jean Reed, proprietor of Jean's Beauty Shoppe.

Today

3588 Kingsway (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record.

People in open cars gathered for a car rally on Kingsway
1913 People in open cars gathered for a car rally on Kingsway. Not at the house at 3588 Kingsway: no archive photo of the 3500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-2294. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Reeds

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Reed 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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.