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A family name on Richards Street, Downtown

The Foxes

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Fox at three addresses in 1940, all on Richards 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 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

    518 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Charles Fox, a chauffeur 1940

    Next door in 1940: Merritt Gordon Hotel at 514 and Merritt Gordon Hotel (Annex) at 520. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    746 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • George Fox, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J Hood at 742 and Ryan Bros Ltd at 748. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1083 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Richard Fox, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs S A Robinson at 1087. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a carpenter (2) and a chauffeur.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 Charles Fox at 518 Richards Street, a chauffeur. The 1940 name section lists George Fox at 746 Richards Street, a carpenter. The 1940 name section lists Richard Fox at 1083 Richards Street, a carpenter.

Today

518 Richards still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 746 Richards and 1083 Richards, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, 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.