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A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

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 West 16th 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

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

    244 West 16th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Herbert L Jones, a reporter at the Canadian Press 1940

    Next door in 1940: A R Wilson at 228 and Chong Dot at 260. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1045 West 16th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • J E Jones 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Coutts at 1031 and J G Boss at 1069. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1131 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • I C Jones, a building contractor 1940
    • Charles S Jones, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: P H Barnett at 1121 and N L Harvey at 1165. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3848 West 16th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • T L Jones, a stock keeper 1940

    Next door in 1940: W A Hill at 3842 and J L Bain at 3852. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a building contractor, a carpenter, a reporter and a stock keeper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Riley Park, Shaughnessy and 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Herbert L Jones at 244 West 16th Avenue, a reporter at the Canadian Press. J E Jones is listed at 1045 West 16th Avenue 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). In 1940 the directory lists I C Jones, a building contractor, at 1131 West 16th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Ira C Jones there as the householder, a building contractor, with Charles S Jones, a carpenter.

In 1940 the directory lists T L Jones at 3848 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Thomas L Jones there as the householder, a stock keeper.

Today

1131 West 16th and 3848 West 16th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 244 West 16th and 1045 West 16th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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

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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.