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A family name on West 3rd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Evanses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Evans at two addresses in 1940, all on West 3rd Avenue. 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 Evanses at 3324 West 3rd in 1940. 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

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

    1872 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Cecil Evans, a presser 1940

    Next door in 1940: E W Chappell at 1864 and Miss H L Murphy at 1876. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3324 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C R Evans, a school principal 1940
    • Beth I Evans, a school teacher at N Vancouver City 1940
    • Don C Evans, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: L A Walker at 3316 and J K Mason at 3330. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a presser, a school principal and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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 Cecil Evans at 1872 West 3rd Avenue, a presser. C R Evans is listed at 3324 West 3rd 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 Charles R Evans there as the householder, a school principal, with Beth I Evans, a school teacher at N Vancouver City, and Don C Evans, a student at UBC.

Today

3324 West 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1872 West 3rd, so that building is 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, 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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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.