A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Weedys
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Weedy at one address, 2242 East 34th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940.
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The Weedys at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
2242 East 34th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- W Weedy, a watchman at BC Sugar 1940
- C Ray Weedy 1940
Next door in 1940: W Younghusband at 2236 and G H Dyson at 2254. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a watchman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists W Weedy at 2242 East 34th 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 William Weedy there as the householder, a watchman at BC Sugar, with C Ray Weedy.
Today
The City no longer lists 2242 East 34th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Weedy W2242 East 34th, p. 250
- Weedy C Ray2242 East 34th, p. 648
- Weedy Wm wtchmn BC Sugar2242 East 34th, p. 648
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Weedys
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Weedy name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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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.