A family name on East Broadway, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage 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 Broadway. 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
147 East Broadway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- P D Reid, in auto bodies 1940
Next door in 1940: mason blk at 109 and R C Demmery at 151. The block, door by door
- 2
175 East Broadway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Miss C H Reid 1940
- Caroline H Reid, who worked for the BC Telephone 1940
Next door in 1940: Hux Lunch at 169. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an employee.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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
In 1940 the directory lists P D Reid, in auto bodies, at 147 East Broadway. Miss C H Reid is listed at 175 East Broadway in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Caroline H Reid there as the householder, who worked for the BC Telephone.
Today
175 East Broadway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 147 East Broadway, 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 P D auto bodies147 East Broadway, p. 15
- Reid Miss C H175 East Broadway, p. 15
- Reid Caroline H emp BC Tel175 East Broadway, p. 514
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.