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A family name on West 15th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Hugheses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Hughes at one address, 356 West 15th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, in 1940. The directories print the name on 92 other streets too, all listed on the Hughes name's own page.

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The Hugheses 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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    356 West 15th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J T M Hughes, an inspector at the Canadian Government 1940
    • Edna G Hughes 1940
    • John M Hughes, a student 1940
    • Joyce M Hughes, a teacher at the Duffus School 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr L H Appleby at 354 and J Sims at 366. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: an inspector and a teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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 J T M Hughes at 356 West 15th Avenue; 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 John T M Hughes there as the householder, an inspector at the Canadian Government, with Edna G Hughes, John M Hughes, a student, and Joyce M Hughes, a teacher at the Duffus School.

Today

356 West 15th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Hugheses

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Hughes 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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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.