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A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Jameses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named James at three addresses in 1940, all on West 12th 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 75 other streets too, all listed on the James name's own page.

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Where the Jameses 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

    1326 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • F C James, in apartments 1940

    Next door in 1940: C D Newcomb at 1316 and E C Lattin at 1336. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1395 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • S M James, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr J M English at 1385. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2386 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Eva James, a domestic for L R Maddaford 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Edwards at 2376 and H B McInnes at 2396. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a domestic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Kitsilano. 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 C James, in apartments, at 1326 West 12th 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). S M James is listed at 1395 West 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sam M James there as the householder, retired. The 1940 name section lists Eva James at 2386 West 12th Avenue, a domestic for L R Maddaford.

Today

1395 West 12th and 2386 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1326 West 12th, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.