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A family name on Pacific Street, West End and Downtown

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 Pacific Street. 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

    1032 Pacific Street

    West End, 1940

    • Robert R Smith 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss H Enders at 1030. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1147 Pacific Street

    West End, 1940

    • Thomas Smith, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Cameron at 1143 and W C Splan at 1155. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1148 Pacific Street

    West End, 1940

    • A Smith, rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M M Blair at 1146 and Mrs M M Carroll at 1152. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1164 Pacific Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Betty Smith 1940

    Next door in 1940: R W Derbyshire at 1154 and K S Nielson at 1166. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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 Robert R Smith at 1032 Pacific Street. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Smith at 1147 Pacific Street, a salesman. In 1940 the directory lists A Smith, rooms to let, at 1148 Pacific Street. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Betty Smith at 1164 Pacific Street.

Today

The City no longer lists 1032 Pacific, 1147 Pacific, 1148 Pacific and 1164 Pacific, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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

The book of the Smiths

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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.