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A family name on East 10th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Smiths

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Smith at four addresses in 1940, all on East 10th Avenue. 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

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

    354 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Irena M Smith, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Spence at 350 and C E Palmer at 376. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    424 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • E J Smith 1940
    • Leslie W Smith, a helper at the Anderson Furniture Factory 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Currell at 420 and Mrs R M McLaren at 428. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1123 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs C Smith, widow of E F 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A M Fox at 1117 and Mrs A M Goodrich at 1129. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1143 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W Smith, a chief clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Marion W Smith, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: A S Milne at 1157. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a chief clerk, a helper, an operator and a stenographer. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (4). 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 Irena M Smith at 354 East 10th Avenue, an operator at the BC Telephone. E J Smith is listed at 424 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Edwin J Smith there as the householder, with Leslie W Smith, a helper at the Anderson Furniture Factory.

Mrs C Smith is listed at 1123 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Christina Smith there as the householder, widow of E F. W Smith is listed at 1143 East 10th Avenue 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 William Smith there as the householder, a chief clerk at the BC Electric Railway, with Marion W Smith, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

1143 East 10th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 1123 East 10th (2015) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 424 East 10th, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 354 East 10th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 9 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

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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.