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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Upsdells

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Upsdell at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Upsdells 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

    6607 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • C W Upsdell, retired 1940
    • Ken F Upsdell, who worked for Boeing's 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Clarke at 6625. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4473 West 14th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Charles W Upsdell, a printer at Western Wholesale Drug 1940

    Next door in 1940: O Ekman at 4459. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an employee and a printer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale and West Point Grey. 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 C W Upsdell at 6607 Angus Drive; 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 Charles W Upsdell there as the householder, retired, with Ken F Upsdell, who worked for Boeing's. The 1940 name section lists Charles W Upsdell at 4473 West 14th Avenue, a printer at Western Wholesale Drug.

Today

6607 Angus Drive (1982) and 4473 West 14th (2008) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 6607 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 6600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. 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, street section

The book of the Upsdells

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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 U. Want a name removed? Tell us.