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A family name on Point Grey Road, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Wards

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Ward at two addresses in 1940, all on Point Grey Road. 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 75 other streets too, all listed on the Ward name's own page.

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Where the Wards 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

    2976 Point Grey Road

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W G Ward, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: A W Lutner at 2966 and F R Ritchie at 2986. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3467 Point Grey Road

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • R H Ward, a managing director at National Investment Co Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Younie at 3461 and Mrs J Pearson at 3479. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a managing director and a manufacturers agent.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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

In 1940 the directory lists W G Ward at 2976 Point Grey Road; 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 William G Ward there as the householder, a manufacturers agent. In 1940 the directory lists R H Ward at 3467 Point Grey Road; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Richard H Ward there as the householder, a managing director at National Investment Co Ltd.

Today

2976 Point Grey Road (1995) and 3467 Point Grey Road (1996) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road
About 1912 A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road. Not at the house at 2976 Point Grey Road: no archive photo of the 2900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P113.3. 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 Wards

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.