A family name on Clark Drive, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant
The Smiths
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named Smith at four addresses in 1940, all on Clark 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 305 other streets too, all listed on the Smith name's own page.
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Where the Smiths lived
- 1
420 Clark Drive
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Mrs Laura Smith 1940
Next door in 1940: Coast Woollen Mills West at 440. The block, door by door
- 2
- 3
3815 Clark Drive
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- William H Smith, retired 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs E G MacKenzie at 3805 and W Smith at 3831. The block, door by door
- 4
3831 Clark Drive
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- W Smith, a cook 1940
Next door in 1940: S Evjen at 3815 and E W Kealey at 3837. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a cook. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and 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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Laura Smith at 420 Clark Drive. The 1940 name section lists Isabella Smith at 1848 Clark Drive, widow of S. The 1940 name section lists William H Smith at 3815 Clark Drive, retired.
W Smith is listed at 3831 Clark Drive 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 Walter Smith there as the householder, a cook.
Today
3815 Clark Drive and 3831 Clark Drive still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1848 Clark Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 420 Clark Drive, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Smith Mrs Laura420 Clark Drive, p. 571
- Smith Isabella wid S1848 Clark Drive, p. 570
- Smith Wm H retired3815 Clark Drive, p. 574
- *Smith W3831 Clark Drive, p. 31
- Smith Walter cook3831 Clark Drive, p. 573
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Smiths
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Smith 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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.