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A family name on West 35th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Smiths

In the city directories 1940 · ten people at seven addresses

The directories print ten people named Smith at seven addresses in 1940, all on West 35th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Smiths at 2130 West 35th 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

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

    1774 West 35th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Mrs E M Smith, widow of W R 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J W Bridges at 1750 and G Churchill at 1798. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1829 West 35th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • G W Smith 1940
    • Smith 1940

    Next door in 1940: F H Smith at 1833. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1833 West 35th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • F H Smith, a secretary to E J Ryan 1940

    Next door in 1940: G W Smith at 1829 and J L Helliwell at 1849. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2130 West 35th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • Miss W G Smith 1940
    • Winnifred G Smith, a supervisor at the BC Telephone 1940
    • Olive M Smith, a supervisor at the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: W A Dean at 2116 and J Raphael at 2150. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2226 West 35th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • Anna Smith, a domestic for M F Thomson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss J N Hatfield at 2208 and A L Hardy at 2242. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    2749 West 35th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • H B Smith, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss E Langley at 2731 and H A Gourlay at 2751. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    3375 West 35th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • E Smith, a salesman at Vancouver Music 1940

    Next door in 1940: D B Baird at 3357 and W N McPhee at 3391. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the ten: a salesman (2), a supervisor (2), a domestic and a secretary to. Two of them worked for BC Telephone. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge (3), Shaughnessy (3) and Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Mrs E M Smith at 1774 West 35th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Edith M Smith there as the householder, widow of W R. In 1940 the directory lists G W Smith at 1829 West 35th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Smith there as the householder.

In 1940 the directory lists F H Smith at 1833 West 35th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Frank H Smith there as the householder, a secretary to E J Ryan. In 1940 the directory lists Miss W G Smith at 2130 West 35th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Winnifred G Smith there as the householder, a supervisor at the BC Telephone, with Olive M Smith, a supervisor at the BC Telephone.

The 1940 name section lists Anna Smith at 2226 West 35th Avenue, a domestic for M F Thomson. H B Smith is listed at 2749 West 35th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Horatio B Smith there as the householder, a salesman.

E Smith is listed at 3375 West 35th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Ernest Smith there as the householder, a salesman at Vancouver Music.

Today

2130 West 35th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record; 1833 West 35th (2008), 2226 West 35th (2011) and 3375 West 35th (2019) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1774 West 35th, 1829 West 35th and 2749 West 35th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 14 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.