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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Wisbeys

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Wisbey at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Wisbeys 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

    1820 Commercial Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • B Wisbey, a flour feed and transfer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Grandview Recreations at 1816 and Coml Dairy at 1824. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1050 Pacific Street

    West End, 1940

    • W C Wisbey 1940

    Next door in 1940: J F McConnell at 1044 and G N Martin at 1054. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2845 West 14th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Sarah E Wisbey, widow of C J 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Baird at 2835 and J Murray at 2855. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland, Kitsilano and West End. 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 B Wisbey, a flour feed and transfer, at 1820 Commercial Drive. W C Wisbey is listed at 1050 Pacific Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sarah E Wisbey at 2845 West 14th Avenue, widow of C J.

Today

1820 Commercial Drive and 2845 West 14th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1050 Pacific, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

The staff of Duke's Grocery in their aprons and coats outside the store at 1588 Commercial Drive
1920 The staff of Duke's Grocery in their aprons and coats outside the store at 1588 Commercial Drive. Not at the house at 1820 Commercial Drive: no archive photo of the 1800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99 - 3274. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.