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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Wedas

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Weda at two addresses in 1940, all on West 6th 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 Wedas at 2334 West 6th in 1940.

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Where the Wedas 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

    2234 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Kayoko Weda 1940

    Next door in 1940: E D Compston at 2226 and Mrs E J Holbrook at 2242. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2334 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J I Weda, a gardener 1940
    • Kuma Weda, widow of H 1940
    • Toshio Weda, a gardener 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Anzai at 2326 and C R Proctor at 2346. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a gardener (2). One is a widow, listed under her own name.

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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Kayoko Weda at 2234 West 6th Avenue. J I Weda is listed at 2334 West 6th 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 J Ihachi Weda there as the householder, a gardener, with Kuma Weda, widow of H, and Toshio Weda, a gardener.

Today

2334 West 6th (1989) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2234 West 6th, so that building is 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Wedas

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.