A family name on East Georgia Street, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Woods
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Wood at one address, 256 East Georgia Street in Strathcona, in 1940. The directories print the name on 129 other streets too, all listed on the Wood name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Woods at home
- 1
256 East Georgia Street
Strathcona, 1940
- G L Wood, a secretary at Vancouver Growers 1940
Next door in 1940: Tong Louie at 254 and J Chee at 262. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a secretary.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Strathcona. 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 G L Wood at 256 East Georgia Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists G Lowe Wood there as the householder, a secretary at Vancouver Growers.
Today
The City no longer lists 256 East Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wood G L256 East Georgia, p. 55
- Wood G Lowe sec Van Growers256 East Georgia, 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.