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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Aults

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Ault 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 Aults 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

    1311 Beach Avenue

    West End, 1940

    • W A Ault, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Healy at 1381. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1076 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Z G Ault, proprietor of the Gregg Apartments 1940

    Next door in 1940: P E Bradley at 1074 and Gregg Apartments at 1086. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    900 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • W A Ault, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: Wilson W & J at 920. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a manufacturers agent and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Fairview and West End. 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 W A Ault at 1311 Beach Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William A Ault there as the householder, a manufacturers agent. In 1940 the directory lists Z G Ault at 1076 West 12th 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 lists Zenas G Ault there as the householder, proprietor of the Gregg Apartments.

In 1940 the directory lists W A Ault, a manufacturers agent, at 900 West Georgia Street.

Today

1311 Beach and 900 West Georgia still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1076 West 12th, 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, 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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.