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A family name on West 8th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Adamses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Adams at three addresses in 1940, all on West 8th 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 93 other streets too, all listed on the Adams name's own page.

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Where the Adamses 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

    1125 West 8th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Edward V Adams, a draftsman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: B W Burns at 1101 and C Boyes at 1135. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2508 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs G H Adams 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M E Lockwood at 2506 and H H Burgess at 2514. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3003 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A B Adams, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Croft at 3007. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a draftsman and an on active service.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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 Edward V Adams at 1125 West 8th Avenue, a draftsman at the BC Electric Railway. Mrs G H Adams is listed at 2508 West 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Georgina H Adams there as the householder.

A B Adams is listed at 3003 West 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Alfred B Adams there as the householder, on active service.

Today

The City no longer lists 1125 West 8th, 2508 West 8th and 3003 West 8th, so those buildings are 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 Adamses

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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.