A family name on Davie Street, West End and Downtown
The Reids
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Reid at two addresses in 1940, all on Davie 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
1160 Davie Street
West End, 1940
- W Reid, a machinist at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940
Next door in 1940: J Allan at 1156 and S E Woodward at 1178. The block, door by door
- 2
1263 Davie Street
West End, 1940
- Edna Reid, a laundress at Empire Cleaners 1940
Next door in 1940: Capitol Gro at 1251 and Mrs D M Yewdall at 1287. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a laundress and a machinist.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (2). 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 W Reid at 1160 Davie Street, a machinist at the Burrard Dry Dock. The 1940 name section lists Edna Reid at 1263 Davie Street, a laundress at Empire Cleaners.
Today
1160 Davie (1969) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1263 Davie, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Reid W mach Burrard Dry Dock1160 Davie, p. 515
- Reid Edna lndrs Empire Clnrs1263 Davie, p. 514
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.