A family name on Arbutus Street, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale
The Reids
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Reid at two addresses in 1940, all on Arbutus Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 131 other streets too, all listed on the Reid name's own page.
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Where the Reids lived
- 1
1749 Arbutus Street
Kitsilano, 1940
- Norman J Reid, a shoe repairer at London Shoe Renew 1940
Next door in 1940: D J Ross at 1741. The block, door by door
- 2
3707 Arbutus Street
Arbutus Ridge, 1940
- R B Reid 1940
- Russell R Reid, an agent for Mutual Life 1940
Next door in 1940: L Cantone at 3725. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an agent and a shoe repairer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and 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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Norman J Reid at 1749 Arbutus Street, a shoe repairer at London Shoe Renew. R B Reid is listed at 3707 Arbutus Street 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 Russell R Reid there as the householder, an agent for Mutual Life.
Today
3707 Arbutus still has its building from before 1946, dated 1918 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1749 Arbutus, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Reid Norman J shoe repr London Shoe Renew1749 Arbutus, p. 515
- *Reid R B3707 Arbutus, p. 6
- Reid Russell R agt Mutual Life3707 Arbutus, p. 515
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Reids
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Reid 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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.