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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

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 Victoria Drive, 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

    310 Victoria Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R Jones, a laborer 1940
    • Alfred F Jones, a pipe fitter 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs N B Thayer at 304 and V H G West at 316. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3881 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • H W Jones, a printer at News-Herald 1940

    Next door in 1940: R J McLennan at 3869 and E E King at 3895. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5735 Victoria Drive

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • W Jones, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Eckersley at 5731 and A Andresen at 5753. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    5950 Victoria Drive

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • D L Jones, a barber 1940
    • Glena Jones 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Horner at 5936. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a barber, a laborer, a pipe fitter and a printer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Victoria-Fraserview (2), Grandview-Woodland and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 R Jones at 310 Victoria Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Richard Jones there as the householder, a laborer, with Alfred F Jones, a pipe fitter. In 1940 the directory lists H W Jones at 3881 Victoria Drive. The 1940 name section lists Howard W Jones there as the householder, a printer at News-Herald.

In 1940 the directory lists W Jones, a confectioner, at 5735 Victoria Drive. D L Jones is listed at 5950 Victoria Drive in 1940; 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 lists David L Jones there as the householder, a barber, with Glena Jones.

Today

3881 Victoria Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; 310 Victoria Drive (1967) and 5950 Victoria Drive (1998) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5735 Victoria Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.