A family name on Carnarvon Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano and Dunbar-Southlands
The Jameses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named James at one address, 5676 Carnarvon Street in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940. The directories print the name on 75 other streets too, all listed on the James name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Jameses at home
Southlands
- 1
5676 Carnarvon Street
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- F W James, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940
- Art James 1940
- Celia James 1940
Next door in 1940: W Sparks at 5662 and Mrs M Steenbergen at 5684. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a laborer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 F W James at 5676 Carnarvon Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frederick W James there as the householder, a laborer at the City of Vancouver, with Art James and Celia James.
Today
The City no longer lists 5676 Carnarvon, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- James F W5676 Carnarvon, p. 27
- James Art5676 Carnarvon, p. 300
- James Celia5676 Carnarvon, p. 300
- James Fredk W lab Van City5676 Carnarvon, p. 300
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Jameses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the James 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 J. Want a name removed? Tell us.