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

The Foxes

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Fox at three addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street, with the close spelling Foxx. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Foxes at 41 East Hastings in 1940. The directories print the name on 56 other streets too, all listed on the Fox name's own page.

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Where the Foxes 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

    41 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Stan Fox, proprietor of the Dundee Rooms 1940
    • Mary Fox 1940
    • Vally Fox 1940

    Next door in 1940: Hub Ltd at 45. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    208 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • M Fox, a physician 1940
  3. 3

    747 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Mrs S Fox, widow of P 1940
    • Hugh Fox, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Sarantis at 721 and 5 listings at 757. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the six: a fisherman and a proprietor. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2) and Downtown. 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 Stan Fox at 41 East Hastings Street as the householder, proprietor of the Dundee Rooms, with Mary Fox and Vally Fox. M Fox, a physician, is listed at 208 East Hastings Street in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs S Fox at 747 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Sarah Fox there as the householder, widow of P, with Hugh Fox, a fisherman.

Today

41 East Hastings (2017) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 208 East Hastings and 747 East Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Foxes

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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.