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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Claxtons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Claxton 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 Claxtons 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

    2686 Granville Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss E G Claxton, in novelties 1940
    • Elinor G Claxton, in novelties 1940

    Next door in 1940: Elite Hat Shop at 2684 and Mary Ellen Dress Shop at 2692. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4842 West 30th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C Claxton 1940

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands 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

In 1940 the directory lists Miss E G Claxton, in novelties, at 2686 Granville Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Elinor G Claxton there, in novelties. In 1940 the directory lists C Claxton at 4842 West 30th Avenue.

Today

The City no longer lists 2686 Granville and 4842 West 30th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk
1917 Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk. Not at the house at 2686 Granville: no archive photo of the 2600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-350. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Claxtons

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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.