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A family name on Cypress Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Hamiltons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Hamilton at two addresses in 1940, all on Cypress Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 98 other streets too, all listed on the Hamilton name's own page.

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Where the Hamiltons lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2616 Cypress Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Julia Hamilton, a widow 1940

    Next door in 1940: Convalescent Home Scottish at 2634. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6443 Cypress Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • W T Hamilton, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Holmes at 6439 and G T Winchester at 6477. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an accountant. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Julia Hamilton at 2616 Cypress Street, a widow. W T Hamilton is listed at 6443 Cypress Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William T Hamilton there as the householder, an accountant.

Today

6443 Cypress (2016) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2616 Cypress, so that building is 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 Hamiltons

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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.