A family name on Powell Street, Strathcona, Downtown and Grandview-Woodland
The Joneses
In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses
The directories print five people named Jones at four addresses in 1940, all on Powell 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
- 1
123 Powell Street
Downtown, 1940
- J H Jones 1940
- J W Jones 1940
Next door in 1940: B C Junk at 135. The block, door by door
- 2
753 Powell Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Joseph J Jones, a logger 1940
Next door in 1940: H Isomura at 747 and J Tanaka at 755. The block, door by door
- 3
1516 Powell Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Reginald Jones, a shoe repairer for G Scott 1940
Next door in 1940: M Adachi at 1514. The block, door by door
- 4
1836 Powell Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- A Jones, a laborer 1940
Next door in 1940: B J Harley at 1834 and Mrs M E Seymour at 1838. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a laborer, a logger and a shoe repairer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2), Downtown and Strathcona. 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 J H Jones at 123 Powell Street, with J W Jones. The 1940 name section lists Joseph J Jones at 753 Powell Street, a logger. The 1940 name section lists Reginald Jones at 1516 Powell Street, a shoe repairer for G Scott.
A Jones is listed at 1836 Powell Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Alfred Jones there as the householder, a laborer.
Today
1516 Powell still has its building from before 1946, dated 1905 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 123 Powell, 753 Powell and 1836 Powell, 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.
- Jones J H123 Powell, p. 310
- Jones J W123 Powell, p. 310
- Jones Jos J logr753 Powell, p. 310
- Jones Regd shoe repr G Scott1516 Powell, p. 311
- Jones A1836 Powell, p. 135
- Jones Alfd lab1836 Powell, p. 309
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.