A family name on Langara Avenue, West Point Grey
The Joneses
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Jones at one address, 4585 Langara Avenue in West Point Grey, in 1940, with the close spelling Joness. The directories print the name on 176 other streets too, all listed on the Jones name's own page.
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The Joneses at home
Point Grey
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4585 Langara Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- G A Jones, a salesman at Standard Brands 1940
Next door in 1940: Delta Phi Alpha at 4579 and W M Hopkins at 4593. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West Point Grey. 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 G A Jones at 4585 Langara 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 George A Jones there as the householder, a salesman at Standard Brands.
Today
4585 Langara still has its building from before 1946, dated 1934 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Jones G A4585 Langara, p. 101
- Jones Geo A slsmn Standard Brands4585 Langara, 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.