A family name on Sophia Street, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant and Sunset
The Gillises
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Gillis at one address, 4295 Sophia Street in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spelling Gillies. The directories print the name on 54 other streets too, all listed on the Gillis name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Gillises at home
- 1
4295 Sophia Street
Riley Park, 1940
- A Gillies, a stenographer at Canadian Liquid Air 1940
- Don Gillies, a clerk at the BC Government 1940
- Isobel A Gillies, who worked for the BC Telephone 1940
- J Angus Gillies 1940
Next door in 1940: C C Holden at 4277. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a clerk, an employee and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 A Gillies at 4295 Sophia Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Angus Gillies there as the householder, a fisherman, with Annie Gillies, a stenographer at Canadian Liquid Air, Don Gillies, a clerk at the BC Government, Isobel A Gillies, who worked for the BC Telephone, and J Angus Gillies.
Today
4295 Sophia (1988) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Gillies A4295 Sophia, p. 153
- Gillies Angus fshrmn4295 Sophia, p. 224
- Gillies Annie sten Can Liq Air4295 Sophia, p. 224
- Gillies Don clk BC Govt4295 Sophia, p. 224
- Gillies Isobel A emp BC Tel4295 Sophia, p. 224
- Gillies J Angus4295 Sophia, p. 224
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Gillises
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Gillis 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 G. Want a name removed? Tell us.