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A family name on Windsor Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

The Smiths

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Smith at three addresses in 1940, all on Windsor Street. 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 4316 Windsor 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

    3856 Windsor Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs Florence M Smith, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
    • Madeline L Smith, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: F G McAvity at 3836 and P T Nelson at 3876. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4316 Windsor Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C F Smith, a bricklayer 1940
    • M Mary Smith, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
    • Richard C Smith, a salesman at the Vancouver Machinery Depot 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Skinner at 4322. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    6329 Windsor Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • Mrs A M Smith, widow of N C 1940
    • Enid A Smith, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: D G A Whorly at 6315 and R L Kelly at 6351. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a bricklayer, a salesman, a saleswoman, a stenographer and a ward assistant. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2) and Sunset. 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 Mrs Florence M Smith at 3856 Windsor Street, a saleswoman at Woodward's, with Madeline L Smith, a student. C F Smith is listed at 4316 Windsor Street in 1940; 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 F Smith there as the householder, a bricklayer, with M Mary Smith, a ward assistant at the Vancouver General Hospital, and Richard C Smith, a salesman at the Vancouver Machinery Depot.

Mrs A M Smith is listed at 6329 Windsor Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Agnes M Smith there as the householder, widow of N C, with Enid A Smith, a stenographer.

Today

4316 Windsor still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; 6329 Windsor (1974) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3856 Windsor, so that building is 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, 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.