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A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Jacksons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Jackson at four addresses in 1940, all on West 1st Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 115 other streets too, all listed on the Jackson name's own page.

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Where the Jacksons 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

    2100 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Harlen Jackson 1940

    Next door in 1940: R W Sparkes at 2116. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2191 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W Jackson, retired 1940
    • Elsie Jackson 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Chapman at 2173. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2346 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • G S Jackson, a salesman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: A M Brink at 2336 and J Black at 2354. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2490 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • G W Jackson, a manager at G Jackson Ltd 1940
    • George B Jackson, a meat cutter for G Jackson 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Kemp at 2474. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a manager, a meat cutter and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (4). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harlen Jackson at 2100 West 1st Avenue. W Jackson is listed at 2191 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William Jackson there as the householder, retired, with Elsie Jackson.

G S Jackson is listed at 2346 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists George S Jackson there as the householder, a salesman at the Hudson's Bay Company. G W Jackson is listed at 2490 West 1st Avenue in 1940; 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 lists George W Jackson there as the householder, a manager at G Jackson Ltd, with George B Jackson, a meat cutter for G Jackson.

Today

2191 West 1st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2100 West 1st, 2346 West 1st and 2490 West 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Jacksons

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 J. Want a name removed? Tell us.