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A family name on Kitchener Street, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Shaws

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Shaw at three addresses in 1940, all on Kitchener Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Shaws at 1629 Kitchener in 1940. The directories print the name on 108 other streets too, all listed on the Shaw name's own page.

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Where the Shaws 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

    1629 Kitchener Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • F C Shaw, a superintendent at Sterling Lumber 1940
    • Charlotte W Shaw 1940
    • Ron C Shaw, a millworker at Sterling Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: T H Fletcher at 1623 and N Marino at 1637. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2608 Kitchener Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • George O Shaw, of Powell Drug Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Johnson at 2618. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2673 Kitchener Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Sam B Shaw, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: P J Mitchell at 2651 and J Adam at 2677. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a laborer, a millworker and a superintendent. Two of them worked for Sterling Lumber.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 F C Shaw at 1629 Kitchener Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Frederick C Shaw there as the householder, a superintendent at Sterling Lumber, with Charlotte W Shaw, and Ron C Shaw, a millworker at Sterling Lumber. The 1940 name section lists George O Shaw at 2608 Kitchener Street, of Powell Drug Co. The 1940 name section lists Sam B Shaw at 2673 Kitchener Street, a laborer at the City of Vancouver.

Today

1629 Kitchener and 2673 Kitchener still have their buildings from before 1946; 2608 Kitchener (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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, street section

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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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.