A family name on West 11th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Adamses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Adams at two addresses in 1940, all on West 11th 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 93 other streets too, all listed on the Adams name's own page.
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Where the Adamses lived
- 1
137 West 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Miss G Adams 1940
- Gertrude Adams 1940
Next door in 1940: R W Atkins at 133 and J Robertson at 139. The block, door by door
- 2
1125 West 11th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Barbara Adams, a social service worker at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: S Miller at 1135. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a social service worker.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Fairview and Mount Pleasant. 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 Miss G Adams at 137 West 11th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Gertrude Adams there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Barbara Adams at 1125 West 11th Avenue, a social service worker at the Vancouver General Hospital.
Today
137 West 11th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1125 West 11th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Adams Miss G137 West 11th, p. 203
- Adams Gertrude137 West 11th, p. 3
- Adams Barbara soc serv wkr Van Genl Hosp1125 West 11th, p. 3
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Adamses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Adams 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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.