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A family name on West 10th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Woodses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Woods at three addresses in 1940, all on West 10th Avenue. 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 54 other streets too, all listed on the Woods name's own page.

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Where the Woodses 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

    150 West 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Kathleen F Woods, a saleswoman for Honey Dew 1940

    Next door in 1940: M B Prowd at 148 and J C Uuonska at 156. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    235 West 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Elsie Woods, a seamer at the Pride of the West 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Nicholson at 237. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1036 West 10th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • W P Woods, a laborer 1940
    • John R Woods, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs I McDonald at 1000 and H K Diebel at 1054. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a laborer, a saleswoman and a seamer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Fairview. 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 Kathleen F Woods at 150 West 10th Avenue, a saleswoman for Honey Dew. The 1940 name section lists Elsie Woods at 235 West 10th Avenue, a seamer at the Pride of the West. In 1940 the directory lists W P Woods at 1036 West 10th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists William P Woods there as the householder, a laborer, with John R Woods, a student at UBC.

Today

150 West 10th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1905 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 235 West 10th (1968) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1036 West 10th, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Woodses

Every directory, as one book

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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.