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A family name on Elgin Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset

The Smiths

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Smith at two addresses in 1940, all on Elgin Street. 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 Smiths at 4830 Elgin in 1940. 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. 1

    4830 Elgin Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • G A Smith, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940
    • Carrie Smith 1940
    • John E Smith, a millworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss R Ruschkowski at 4824 and E N O'Dell at 4838. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4850 Elgin Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J Smith, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: E N O'Dell at 4838. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a laborer and a millworker.

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 G A Smith at 4830 Elgin 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 George A Smith there as the householder, a laborer at Canadian White Pine, with Carrie Smith, and John E Smith, a millworker. In 1940 the directory lists J Smith at 4850 Elgin Street. The 1940 name section lists John Smith there as the householder, retired.

Today

4830 Elgin (1986) and 4850 Elgin (1963) have newer buildings, 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.