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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Woodlands

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Woodland at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Woodlands 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

    1456 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs M E Woodland, widow of G A 1940

    Next door in 1940: st claire apts at 1446 and J G Shubb at 1470. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2625 West 41st Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Josephine R Woodland, widow of G H 1940

    Next door in 1940: G K Allen at 2641. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    640 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Villas Woodland, in real estate 1940

    Next door in 1940: Strand Cigar Store at 626 and can bank of com at 698. The block, door by door

What they did

Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Fairview and Kerrisdale. 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 Mrs M E Woodland at 1456 West 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Millie E Woodland there as the householder, widow of G A. The 1940 name section lists Josephine R Woodland at 2625 West 41st Avenue, widow of G H. Villas Woodland, in real estate, is listed at 640 West Hastings Street in 1940.

Today

2625 West 41st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1456 West 12th and 640 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, street section

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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.