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

The Shaws

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Shaw at two addresses in 1940, all on Woodland Drive. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Shaws at 2549 Woodland Drive 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

    2549 Woodland Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • R Shaw, a major at the Salvation Army 1940
    • Cath M Shaw, a student 1940
    • Esther L Shaw, a saleswoman at Woolworths 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Pillat at 2543. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2837 Woodland Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Wallace Shaw, a chauffeur 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Ledieu at 2829 and E J Bush at 2843. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a chauffeur, a major and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 R Shaw at 2549 Woodland Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Richard Shaw there as the householder, a major at the Salvation Army, with Cath M Shaw, a student, and Esther L Shaw, a saleswoman at Woolworths. The 1940 name section lists Wallace Shaw at 2837 Woodland Drive, a chauffeur.

Today

2837 Woodland Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2549 Woodland Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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, street section

The book of the Shaws

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Shaw 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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.