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A family name on Point Grey Road, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Bishops

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Bishop at one address, 3941 Point Grey Road in West Point Grey, in 1940. The directories print the name on 54 other streets too, all listed on the Bishop name's own page.

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The Bishops at home

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    3941 Point Grey Road

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • O P Bishop, a cutter at Reid's Holiday Togs 1940
    • John Bishop 1940
    • Philip Bishop 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Lyon at 3925. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a cutter.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in West Point Grey. 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 O P Bishop at 3941 Point Grey Road. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Orby P Bishop there as the householder, a cutter at Reid's Holiday Togs, with John Bishop and Philip Bishop.

Today

For 3941 Point Grey Road, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road
About 1912 A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road. Not at the house at 3941 Point Grey Road: no archive photo of the 3900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P113.3. Public domain.

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

The book of the Bishops

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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.