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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Heightons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Heighton at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Heightons 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

    1132 Salsbury Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W H Heighton 1940

    Next door in 1940: hollybank lodge at 1100 and Mrs M Scharschmidt at 1190. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    425 West 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Nan M Highton, widow of A 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M Springett at 415 and Mrs E A Doughty at 435. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1259 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Loretta A Highton 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Morris at 1241 and L Dixon at 1269. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Mount Pleasant. 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 W H Heighton at 1132 Salsbury Drive; 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 Nan M Highton at 425 West 10th Avenue, widow of A. The 1940 name section lists Loretta A Highton at 1259 West Georgia Street.

Today

1132 Salsbury Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 425 West 10th and 1259 West Georgia, 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, street section

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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.