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A family name on West 44th Avenue, Kerrisdale and Dunbar-Southlands

The Wallaces

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Wallace at two addresses in 1940, all on West 44th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Wallaces at 2949 West 44th in 1940. The directories print the name on 88 other streets too, all listed on the Wallace name's own page.

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Where the Wallaces 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

    2844 West 44th Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Mrs E Jane Wallace 1940

    Next door in 1940: L C Creery at 2832 and W V Smitheringale at 2856. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2949 West 44th Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • W Wallace, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Alex M Wallace, a carpenter 1940
    • Elizabeth Wallace 1940
    • Mary Wallace, a telephone operator 1940

    Next door in 1940: W F Randle at 2937 and G S Thompson at 2959. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a carpenter, a conductor and a telephone operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale (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 Mrs E Jane Wallace at 2844 West 44th Avenue. W Wallace, a building contractor, is listed at 2949 West 44th Avenue 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 William Wallace there, a building contractor, with William Wallace Jr, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway, Alex M Wallace, a carpenter, Elizabeth Wallace, and Mary Wallace, a telephone operator.

Today

2844 West 44th and 2949 West 44th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Wallaces

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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.