A family name on Trafalgar Street, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale
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 Trafalgar 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
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1849 Trafalgar Street
Kitsilano, 1940
- Beatrice M Wood, widow of H 1940
Next door in 1940: M L Beney at 1841. The block, door by door
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What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an accountant and a fireman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kitsilano (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
In 1940 the directory lists A C Wood at 1615 Trafalgar Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Arthur C Wood there as the householder, an accountant at Western Chemical Industrial. The 1940 name section lists Beatrice M Wood at 1849 Trafalgar Street, widow of H.
W E Wood is listed at 3075 Trafalgar Street in 1940; 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 lists William E Wood there as the householder, a fireman at the CPR.
Today
1615 Trafalgar and 1849 Trafalgar still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 3075 Trafalgar, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wood A C1615 Trafalgar, p. 156
- Wood Arth C acct Western Chem Indus1615 Trafalgar, p. 671
- Wood Beatrice M wid H1849 Trafalgar, p. 671
- *Wood W E3075 Trafalgar, p. 156
- Wood Wm E firmn CPR3075 Trafalgar, p. 672
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.