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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Waymarks

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Waymark 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. The most under one roof: three Waymarks at 4055 Welwyn in 1940.

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Where the Waymarks 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

    1125 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • C S Waymark 1940

    Next door in 1940: Hemenway & Son at 1123 and L N Gowdy at 1127. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4055 Welwyn Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C S Waymark, a branch manager at Angus Meat Market 1940
    • Colin A Waymark, a pressman for A A Hodgson 1940
    • Margaret Waymark, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: S H Barker at 4049 and S G Montgomery at 4063. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a branch manager, a pressman and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 C S Waymark at 1125 Granville Street. C S Waymark is listed at 4055 Welwyn Street 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 Colin S Waymark there as the householder, a branch manager at Angus Meat Market, with Colin A Waymark, a pressman for A A Hodgson, and Margaret Waymark, a saleswoman at Woodward's.

Today

1125 Granville and 4055 Welwyn still have their buildings from before 1946.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Waymarks

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.