A family name on West 70th Avenue, Marpole
The Joneses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Jones at one address, 1369 West 70th Avenue in Marpole, 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
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1369 West 70th Avenue
Marpole, 1940
- E W Jones, a plumber at Weeks & Co 1940
- Norah S Jones, a stenographer at Ladner, Carmichael & Downs 1940
Next door in 1940: J M Maddin at 1353 and C Fraser at 1387. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a plumber and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Marpole. 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 E W Jones at 1369 West 70th 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 Edward W Jones there as the householder, a plumber at Weeks & Co, with Norah S Jones, a stenographer at Ladner, Carmichael & Downs.
Today
The City no longer lists 1369 West 70th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Jones E W1369 West 70th, p. 272
- Jones Edw W plmbr Weeks & Co1369 West 70th, p. 310
- Jones Norah S stenographer Ladner, Carmichael & Downs1369 West 70th, p. 311
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.