A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Evanses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Evans at two addresses in 1940, all on East 8th Avenue. 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 110 other streets too, all listed on the Evans name's own page.
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Where the Evanses lived
- 1
1368 East 8th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Hazel J Evans, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs P Cadillac at 1366 and B G White at 1370. The block, door by door
- 2
1384 East 8th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- D Evans, a branch manager at Safeway 1940
Next door in 1940: B G White at 1370. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a branch manager and an operator.
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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Hazel J Evans at 1368 East 8th Avenue, an operator at the BC Telephone. D Evans is listed at 1384 East 8th Avenue 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 Don Evans there as the householder, a branch manager at Safeway.
Today
1384 East 8th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1940 by the City's record; 1368 East 8th (1994) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Evans Hazel J opr BC Tel1368 East 8th, p. 187
- *Evans D1384 East 8th, p. 194
- Evans Don br mgr Safeway1384 East 8th, p. 187
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Evanses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Evans name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.