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A family name on West 13th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Foxes

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Fox at two addresses in 1940, all on West 13th Avenue, with the close spelling Foxx. 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 Foxes at 1625 West 13th 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

    1625 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • J H Fox, a district freight agent at the CPR 1940
    • John F Fox, a bookkeeper at Canadian Canners 1940
    • William L Fox, a clerk at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C B Kerr at 1615 and G E Walton at 1635. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2126 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Louisa Fox, widow of J 1940

    Next door in 1940: R D Watkin at 2114 and P Bjarnason at 2134. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a bookkeeper, a clerk and a district freight agent. Two of them worked for CPR. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and Kitsilano. 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

In 1940 the directory lists J H Fox at 1625 West 13th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists John H Fox there as the householder, a district freight agent at the CPR, with John F Fox, a bookkeeper at Canadian Canners, and William L Fox, a clerk at the CPR. The 1940 name section lists Louisa Fox at 2126 West 13th Avenue, widow of J.

Today

1625 West 13th (1968) and 2126 West 13th (1992) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

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, street section

The book of the Foxes

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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.