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A family name on Welwyn Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Smiths

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Smith at three addresses in 1940, all on Welwyn 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    4115 Welwyn Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J E Smith, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M S Johnson at 4103 and S W Verge at 4123. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4292 Welwyn Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J J Smith, a coppersmith 1940
  3. 3

    4353 Welwyn Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mary Smith 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Scratchley at 4341 and E Ayley at 4363. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a coppersmith and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (3). 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 J E Smith at 4115 Welwyn Street, a laborer at Canadian White Pine. J J Smith is listed at 4292 Welwyn Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John J Smith there as the householder, a coppersmith. The 1940 name section lists Mary Smith at 4353 Welwyn Street.

Today

4292 Welwyn and 4353 Welwyn still have their buildings from before 1946; 4115 Welwyn (1988) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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

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.