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A family name on East 6th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Reids

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Reid at three addresses in 1940, all on East 6th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

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

    1962 East 6th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Isa W Reid, a bookkeeper at Davidson & Wright 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Bushby at 1958 and C J Fox at 1968. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2227 East 6th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W B Reid, a plumber at Canadian National Steamships 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Thomson at 2211 and W H Green at 2233. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3161 East 6th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • A Reid, a waiter at the BC Coast Steamship Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: P B Reeves at 3147 and A K Spalding at 3175. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a bookkeeper, a plumber and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Isa W Reid at 1962 East 6th Avenue, a bookkeeper at Davidson & Wright. W B Reid is listed at 2227 East 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William B Reid there as the householder, a plumber at Canadian National Steamships.

A Reid is listed at 3161 East 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Archibald Reid there as the householder, a waiter at the BC Coast Steamship Service.

Today

1962 East 6th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 2227 East 6th (1983) and 3161 East 6th (1986) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

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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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.