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A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Watts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Watt at one address, 1204 East 12th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, in 1940. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the Watt name's own page.

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The Watts at home

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    1204 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • F W Watt, a sub station operator at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Alistair McK Watt, an apprentice at the CPR 1940
    • William C Watt, a helper at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: J C Mitchell at 1200 and R E Edge at 1210. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an apprentice, a helper and a sub station operator. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 F W Watt at 1204 East 12th Avenue; 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 Frederick W Watt there as the householder, a sub station operator at the BC Electric Railway, with Alistair McK Watt, an apprentice at the CPR, and William C Watt, a helper at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

The City no longer lists 1204 East 12th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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 Watts

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.