A family name on East 45th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney
The Joneses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Jones at two addresses in 1940, all on East 45th Avenue, with the close spelling Joness. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 176 other streets too, all listed on the Jones name's own page.
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Where the Joneses lived
- 1
449 East 45th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- J W Jones, a jam maker at Empress Manufacturing 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M E Collinson at 453. The block, door by door
- 2
562 East 45th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- Ethel M Jones, a housekeeper for H T S Hillard 1940
Next door in 1940: E Cole at 552 and Mrs M Aulenbacher at 576. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a housekeeper and a jam maker.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Sunset (2). 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 W Jones at 449 East 45th 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 W Jones there as the householder, a jam maker at Empress Manufacturing. The 1940 name section lists Ethel M Jones at 562 East 45th Avenue, a housekeeper for H T S Hillard.
Today
449 East 45th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 562 East 45th (1999) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Jones J W449 East 45th, p. 261
- Jones John W jam mkr Empress Mfg449 East 45th, p. 310
- Jones Ethel M hsekpr H T S Hillard562 East 45th, p. 310
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Joneses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Jones 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.