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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Joncases

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Joncas at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Joncases 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

    1221 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Alfred Joncas 1940

    Next door in 1940: Snap-On Tools of Can at 1211 and T Ishida at 1227. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1870 Yew Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • S A Joncas, an accountant at McGavin 1940
    • Roland A Joncas, a student 1940

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alfred Joncas at 1221 Granville Street. S A Joncas is listed at 1870 Yew Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Sylva A Joncas there as the householder, an accountant at McGavin, with Roland A Joncas, a student.

Today

1221 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; 1870 Yew (1982) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park
About 1910 Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park. Not at the house at 1870 Yew: no archive photo of the 1800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1376-80.43. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Joncases

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.