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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Elighs

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Eligh 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. The most under one roof: three Elighs at 2931 Quebec in 1940.

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Where the Elighs 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

    2020 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • P Eligh, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: W H Fletcher at 2040. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2931 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J Eligh, retired 1940
    • Helen Eligh 1940
    • Margaret A Eligh, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: T J Hopwood at 2905 and A M Cowx at 2943. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a clerk and a music teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and West End. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists P Eligh at 2020 Barclay Street, a clerk at the Hudson's Bay Company. J Eligh is listed at 2931 Quebec Street in 1940; 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 lists Jacob Eligh there as the householder, retired, with Helen Eligh, and Margaret A Eligh, a music teacher.

Today

The City no longer lists 2020 Barclay and 2931 Quebec, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 2931 Quebec: no archive photo of the 2900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Elighs

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 E. Want a name removed? Tell us.