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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Columbuses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Columbus 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 Columbuses lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Two addresses aren't on today's map, so they have no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    5432 Vine Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • W L Columbus 1940

    Next door in 1940: R H Blusson at 5420 and Mrs E G Lyon at 5444. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3449 West 37th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • G Columbus, a salesman at Beatty Bros 1940

    Next door in 1940: C G Folting at 3435 and J W B Blake at 3463. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1010 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss M Columbus 1940
    • Marie Columbus 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Hepplewhite at 1008 and Mrs N Stone at 1012. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge, Downtown and Dunbar-Southlands. 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 L Columbus at 5432 Vine Street. G Columbus is listed at 3449 West 37th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George Columbus there, a salesman at Beatty Bros.

Miss M Columbus is listed at 1010 West Pender Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Marie Columbus there as the householder.

Today

3449 West 37th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5432 Vine and 1010 West Pender, 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, street section

The book of the Columbuses

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.