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A family name on Comox Street, West End

The Taits

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Tait at two addresses in 1940, all on Comox Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Tait name's own page.

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Where the Taits 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

    1021 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • G Percy Tait 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Shelton at 1011 and Mrs L Lawley at 1023. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1727 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • R Tait, a clerk at Slade & Stewart 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L Wheatley at 1721 and G T Jones at 1739. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a clerk.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists G Percy Tait at 1021 Comox Street. R Tait is listed at 1727 Comox 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 Robert Tait there as the householder, a shoe repairer, with Russell Tait, a clerk at Slade & Stewart.

Today

1727 Comox (1956) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1021 Comox, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees
1925 Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees. Taken where the 1700 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 1727 Comox. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

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 Taits

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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.