A family name on East Broadway, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Hastings-Sunrise
The Woods
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Wood at three addresses in 1940, all on East Broadway. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 129 other streets too, all listed on the Wood name's own page.
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Where the Woods lived
- 1
175 East Broadway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- H Wood, a dentist 1940
Next door in 1940: Hux Lunch at 169. The block, door by door
- 2
1712 East Broadway
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- G M Wood, a salesman at Grandview Furniture 1940
Next door in 1940: Highway Prod at 1710 and C S Turner at 1714. The block, door by door
- 3
3231 East Broadway
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- De Forest S Wood, retired 1940
Next door in 1940: F H Strain at 3221 and Miss M Malsbury at 3261. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. 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 H Wood, a dentist, at 175 East Broadway. G M Wood is listed at 1712 East Broadway in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George M Wood there as the householder, a salesman at Grandview Furniture. The 1940 name section lists De Forest S Wood at 3231 East Broadway, retired.
Today
175 East Broadway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 3231 East Broadway (1990) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1712 East Broadway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wood H dentist175 East Broadway, p. 15
- Wood G M1712 East Broadway, p. 16
- Wood Geo M slsmn Grandview Furn1712 East Broadway, p. 671
- Wood De Forest S retired3231 East Broadway, p. 671
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Woods
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Wood 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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Another name, or a house
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.