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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Welsfords

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Welsford at three addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Welsfords 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

    637 Seymour Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Charles Welsford, a waiter at the Union Steamship Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mason & Risch at 635 and G F Jackson at 641. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3230 West 23rd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W A Welsford, an accountant at Empire Brass 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Macgregor at 3222 and J L Vallie at 3240. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3557 West 36th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W G Welsford, an assistant secretary at the Vancouver Board of Trade 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss I M Bolton at 3549 and R R Horrex at 3565. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an accountant, an assistant secretary and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2) and Downtown. 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 Charles Welsford at 637 Seymour Street, a waiter at the Union Steamship Company. W A Welsford is listed at 3230 West 23rd 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 William A Welsford there as the householder, an accountant at Empire Brass, with William Welsford, a student at UBC.

W G Welsford is listed at 3557 West 36th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Walter G Welsford there as the householder, an assistant secretary at the Vancouver Board of Trade.

Today

3230 West 23rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1929 by the City's record; 3557 West 36th (1990) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 637 Seymour, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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

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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.