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A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Smiths

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Smith at four addresses in 1940, all on East 8th 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

    110 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • R F Smith, a driver at Kerrisdale Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Mason at 106 and 6 listings at 124. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    439 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • F Smith, a green chainman at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: W S McKay at 421 and J H Behman at 449. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    531 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C H Smith, a salesman at Shell Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E J Horner at 523 and H J MacCallum at 537. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1522 East 8th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W J Smith, a freight hand at the CPR 1940
    • George W Smith, an office boy at Columbia Paper 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Findlater at 1516 and T Brooks at 1530. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a driver, a freight hand, a green chainman, an office boy and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3) 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 R F Smith at 110 East 8th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert F Smith there as the householder, a driver at Kerrisdale Lumber. In 1940 the directory lists F Smith at 439 East 8th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Frank Smith there as the householder, a green chainman at Canadian White Pine.

In 1940 the directory lists C H Smith at 531 East 8th Avenue; 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 Charles H Smith there as the householder, a salesman at Shell Oil. In 1940 the directory lists W J Smith at 1522 East 8th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William J Smith there as the householder, a freight hand at the CPR, with George W Smith, an office boy at Columbia Paper.

Today

The City no longer lists 110 East 8th, 439 East 8th, 531 East 8th and 1522 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, street section

The book of the Smiths

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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.