A family name on West 39th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge
The Holmeses
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Holmes at one address, 2128 West 39th Avenue in Arbutus Ridge, 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
Ridge
- 1
2128 West 39th Avenue
Arbutus Ridge, 1940
- G D Holmes, in superintendent of agencies for Prud Assce 1940
Next door in 1940: H L Straight at 2124 and H Parker at 2138. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a superintendent of agencies.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Arbutus Ridge. 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 G D Holmes at 2128 West 39th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists G Doug Holmes there as the householder, in superintendent of agencies for Prud Assce.
Today
The City no longer lists 2128 West 39th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Holmes G D2128 West 39th, p. 255
- Holmes G Doug supt of agcies Prud Assce2128 West 39th, p. 278
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Holmeses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Holmes 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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.