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A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

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 East 8th Avenue. 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

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    70 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Hugh W Reid, an engineer at the Pacific Mills 1940

    Next door in 1940: T O Downs at 56. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1848 East 8th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A C Reid, a machinist at the CPR 1940
    • Phyllis E Reid, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: I Hutchings at 1842 and W A Richardson at 1854. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an engineer, a machinist and an operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Mount Pleasant. 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 Hugh W Reid at 70 East 8th Avenue, an engineer at the Pacific Mills. A C Reid is listed at 1848 East 8th 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 A Campbell Reid there as the householder, a machinist at the CPR, with Phyllis E Reid, an operator at the BC Telephone.

Today

The City no longer lists 70 East 8th and 1848 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Reids

Every directory, as one book

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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.