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A family name on Melbourne Street, Renfrew-Collingwood

The Wests

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named West at one address, 5612 Melbourne Street in Renfrew-Collingwood, in 1940. The directories print the name on 71 other streets too, all listed on the West name's own page.

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The Wests at home

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    5612 Melbourne Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • C H West, a dairyman at Avalon Dairy 1940
    • Don C West, a fitter at Kumfort Furnace 1940
    • Patrick H West, a driver 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a dairyman, a driver and a fitter.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 C H West at 5612 Melbourne Street; 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 Charles H West there as the householder, a dairyman at Avalon Dairy, with Don C West, a fitter at Kumfort Furnace, and Patrick H West, a driver.

Today

5612 Melbourne (1994) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Wests

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.