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A family name on Venables Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Woods

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Wood at two addresses in 1940, all on Venables Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

    1656 Venables Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • S A Wood, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: 4 listings at 1654 and F H Shillington at 1662. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2587 Venables Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • W Wood, a cleaner at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
    • Robert Wood, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: A R Tossell at 2581 and G K Allan at 2593. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a laborer (2) and a cleaner.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 S A Wood at 1656 Venables Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sid A Wood there as the householder, a laborer. In 1940 the directory lists W Wood at 2587 Venables Street; 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 Wood there as the householder, a master mariner, with William Wood Jr, a cleaner at the Vancouver General Hospital, and Robert Wood, a laborer at Canadian White Pine.

Today

2587 Venables still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1656 Venables, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Woods

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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.