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A family name on Charles Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Coxes

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Cox at two addresses in 1940, all on Charles Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 52 other streets too, all listed on the Cox name's own page.

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Where the Coxes 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

    2021 Charles Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A S Cox, proprietor of Cox Family Shoe Store 1940

    Next door in 1940: R F Simpson at 2025. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2138 Charles Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • James W Cox, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Thompson at 2130 and J Sinclair at 2146. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a carpenter and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 A S Cox at 2021 Charles Street; 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 Albert S Cox there as the householder, proprietor of Cox Family Shoe Store. The 1940 name section lists James W Cox at 2138 Charles Street, a carpenter.

Today

2138 Charles still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2021 Charles, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Firefighters with their horse-drawn wagons in front of Firehall No. 9 at Salsbury Drive and Charles Street
About 1910 Firefighters with their horse-drawn wagons in front of Firehall No. 9 at Salsbury Drive and Charles Street. Not at the house at 2021 Charles: no archive photo of the 2000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 354-335. 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 Coxes

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.