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A family name on West 42nd Avenue, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Dunbar-Southlands

The Wests

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named West at two addresses in 1940, all on West 42nd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 71 other streets too, all listed on the West name's own page.

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Where the Wests 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

    1958 West 42nd Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • W A West, a salesman at Shell Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Bristow at 1948 and B R McNaught at 1968. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3521 West 42nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • H E West, a school teacher 1940
    • Ruth E West, a saleswoman for Marguerite Shoppe 1940

    Next door in 1940: E N Akerly at 3527. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a salesman, a saleswoman and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and Kerrisdale. 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 A West at 1958 West 42nd 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 A West there as the householder, a salesman at Shell Oil. In 1940 the directory lists H E West at 3521 West 42nd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Harold E West there as the householder, a school teacher, with Ruth E West, a saleswoman for Marguerite Shoppe.

Today

1958 West 42nd and 3521 West 42nd 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, street section

The book of the Wests

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the West 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.