A family name on West 54th Avenue, Oakridge and Kerrisdale
The Holmeses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Holmes at one address, 1637 West 54th Avenue in Kerrisdale, 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
- 1
1637 West 54th Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- A G Holmes, a president at Holmes & Wilson Trucking 1940
- M Adelaide Holmes, a bookkeeper at Mitchell-Foley 1940
- Ruth V Holmes, a clerk at Mitchell-Foley 1940
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a bookkeeper, a clerk and a president. Two of them worked for Mitchell-Foley.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kerrisdale. 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 G Holmes at 1637 West 54th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Albert G Holmes there as the householder, a president at Holmes & Wilson Trucking, with M Adelaide Holmes, a bookkeeper at Mitchell-Foley, and Ruth V Holmes, a clerk at Mitchell-Foley.
Today
1637 West 54th (2021) has a newer building, 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.
- Holmes A G1637 West 54th, p. 268
- Holmes Albt G pres Holmes & Wilson Trucking1637 West 54th, p. 278
- Holmes M Adelaide bkpr Mitchell-Foley1637 West 54th, p. 279
- Holmes Ruth V clk Mitchell-Foley1637 West 54th, p. 279
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.