Vancouver / Names / W / Wood / West 39th Avenue

A family name on West 39th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

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 West 39th Avenue. 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3125 West 39th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • E Maude Wood 1940
    • Robert G Wood, a druggist 1940

    Next door in 1940: R W Bishop at 3107 and C Stead at 3141. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3815 West 39th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • J S Wood, in real estate 1940

    Next door in 1940: W A Stead at 3803 and H C Pim at 3825. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a druggist and a real estate.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2). 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 E Maude Wood at 3125 West 39th Avenue, with Robert G Wood, a druggist. J S Wood is listed at 3815 West 39th Avenue 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 John S Wood there as the householder, in real estate.

Today

3125 West 39th (2011) and 3815 West 39th (2015) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

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.