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A family name on West 2nd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Holmeses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Holmes at one address, 2735 West 2nd Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940, with the close spelling Holms. The directories print the name on 59 other streets too, all listed on the Holmes name's own page.

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The Holmeses at home

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).
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    2735 West 2nd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs E A Holmes, widow of C L 1940
    • Grace M Holmes, a stenographer 1940
    • Jean E Holmes, a cashier for G Jackson 1940

    Next door in 1940: E James at 2729 and A G Reid at 2745. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a cashier and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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 Mrs E A Holmes at 2735 West 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Elizabeth A Holmes there as the householder, widow of C L, with Grace M Holmes, a stenographer, and Jean E Holmes, a cashier for G Jackson.

Today

2735 West 2nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Holmeses

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.