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A family name on Nelson Street, West End and Downtown

The Woods

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Wood at three addresses in 1940, all on Nelson Street. 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

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

    1235 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • C Gordon Wood, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: beverly (the) at 1225 and tweedsmuir apts at 1245. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1248 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Ruth Wood 1940
    • Sarah Wood 1940

    Next door in 1940: F M Mills at 1242 and Mrs E McEwan at 1256. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2075 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • John E R Wood, a mining engineer 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a clerk and a mining engineer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (3). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists C Gordon Wood at 1235 Nelson Street, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company. The 1940 name section lists Ruth Wood at 1248 Nelson Street, with Sarah Wood. The 1940 name section lists John E R Wood at 2075 Nelson Street as the householder, a mining engineer.

Today

1235 Nelson still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1248 Nelson and 2075 Nelson, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Nelson Street, a wide street of houses behind hedges
About 1915 Nelson Street, a wide street of houses behind hedges. Not at the house at 1248 Nelson: no archive photo of the 1200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P181.2. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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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.