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A family name on West 4th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Watts

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Watt at two addresses in 1940, all on West 4th 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: three Watts at 1825 West 4th 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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Where the Watts 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

    1825 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W D Watt, a babbitter at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Maude P Watt 1940
    • Sadie V Watt, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: 5 listings at 1815 and famous shoe renew at 1833. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2914 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J Watt, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: West Produce at 2912. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a babbitter.

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 D Watt at 1825 West 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William D Watt there as the householder, a babbitter at the BC Electric Railway, with Maude P Watt, and Sadie V Watt, a student. In 1940 the directory lists J Watt, a barber, at 2914 West 4th Avenue.

Today

The City no longer lists 1825 West 4th and 2914 West 4th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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.