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A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Joneses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Jones at four addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street, 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

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

    403 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Harry Jones, a meterman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: collins u drive ltd at 417. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    611 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Thomas G Jones 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Iwamoto at 609 and East End Taxi at 613. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    701 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • W A Jones, a porter at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Yatsukado at 703. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1036 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • R Jones, who worked for Restmore 1940

    Next door in 1940: B Gartos at 1032. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an employee, a meterman and a porter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (4). 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 Harry Jones at 403 East Hastings Street, a meterman at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists Thomas G Jones at 611 East Hastings Street. In 1940 the directory lists W A Jones at 701 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists William A Jones there as the householder, a porter at the CPR.

In 1940 the directory lists R Jones at 1036 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Reginald Jones there as the householder, who worked for Restmore.

Today

403 East Hastings still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 701 East Hastings (1970) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 611 East Hastings and 1036 East Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Joneses

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.