A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Joneses
In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses
The directories print six people named Jones at four addresses in 1940, all on East 7th Avenue, with the close spelling Joness. 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 176 other streets too, all listed on the Jones name's own page.
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Where the Joneses lived
- 1
133 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- P Jones 1940
- Dorothy A Jones, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: Salv Army at 125 and L F Lowe at 141. The block, door by door
- 2
611 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- W R Jones 1940
Next door in 1940: J T Thomson at 653. The block, door by door
- 3
634 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- W P Jones, a decorator 1940
- Adelaide E Jones, a stenographer 1940
Next door in 1940: J H Hooper at 612 and Mrs G Dean at 642. The block, door by door
- 4
1777 East 7th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Freda Jones, a canvasser at the Goodwill Activities Association 1940
Next door in 1940: T H Sharp at 1765. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a canvasser, a decorator and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 P Jones at 133 East 7th 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 Philip Jones there as the householder, with Dorothy A Jones, a student. In 1940 the directory lists W R Jones at 611 East 7th Avenue.
W P Jones is listed at 634 East 7th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William P Jones there as the householder, a decorator, with Adelaide E Jones, a stenographer. The 1940 name section lists Freda Jones at 1777 East 7th Avenue, a canvasser at the Goodwill Activities Association.
Today
133 East 7th, 611 East 7th and 1777 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 634 East 7th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Jones P133 East 7th, p. 189
- Jones Dorothy A studt133 East 7th, p. 310
- Jones Philip133 East 7th, p. 311
- Jones W R611 East 7th, p. 190
- *Jones W P634 East 7th, p. 190
- Jones Adelaide E sten634 East 7th, p. 309
- Jones Wm P decrtr634 East 7th, p. 312
- Jones Freda canvasser Goodwill Activities Assn1777 East 7th, 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.