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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

The Reids

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Reid at three addresses in 1940, all on Victoria Drive. 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

    512 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • James Reid, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Begg at 506 and R F Roye at 518. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1718 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • L E Reid, an assistant millwright at Canadian White Pine 1940
    • Harley L Reid, a freight handler 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A M Thrapp at 1710 and Mrs M A Turnbull at 1722. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    6080 Victoria Drive

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • W M Reid, a sawyer at Bloedel Stewart & Welch 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs N Peacey at 6082. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an assistant millwright, a freight handler and a sawyer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Victoria-Fraserview. 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 James Reid at 512 Victoria Drive, retired. L E Reid is listed at 1718 Victoria Drive in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Lawrence E Reid there as the householder, an assistant millwright at Canadian White Pine, with Harley L Reid, a freight handler.

W M Reid is listed at 6080 Victoria Drive in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William M Reid there as the householder, a sawyer at Bloedel Stewart & Welch.

Today

1718 Victoria Drive and 6080 Victoria Drive still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 512 Victoria Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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.