A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Reids
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Reid at two addresses in 1940, all on East 12th Avenue. 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: three Reids at 1584 East 12th in 1940. 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
1505 East 12th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Isabelle Reid 1940
Next door in 1940: H J Martin at 1507. The block, door by door
- 2
1584 East 12th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J B Reid, proprietor of Reid's Transfer 1940
- Cecil Reid, a driver 1940
- Hazel Reid, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs F L Wheeler at 1572. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a driver, an operator and a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 Isabelle Reid at 1505 East 12th Avenue. J B Reid is listed at 1584 East 12th Avenue 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 James B Reid there as the householder, proprietor of Reid's Transfer, with Cecil Reid, a driver, and Hazel Reid, an operator at the BC Telephone.
Today
1584 East 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1505 East 12th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Reid Isabelle1505 East 12th, p. 514
- *Reid J B1584 East 12th, p. 206
- Reid Cecil drvr1584 East 12th, p. 514
- Reid Hazel opr BC Tel1584 East 12th, p. 514
- Reid Jas B prop Reid's Transf1584 East 12th, 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.