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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bosses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Boss at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Bosses 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

    455 East 17th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • M T Boss, a planerman at Empire Box 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Pavan at 449 and W Wood at 465. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1069 West 16th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • J G Boss, a meter reader at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: J E Jones at 1045 and O S McMorran at 1071. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a meter reader and a planerman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park and Shaughnessy. 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 M T Boss at 455 East 17th 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 Morley T Boss there as the householder, a planerman at Empire Box. In 1940 the directory lists J G Boss at 1069 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Joseph G Boss there as the householder, a meter reader at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

455 East 17th (2005) and 1069 West 16th (2014) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

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 Bosses

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.