A family name on West Cordova Street, Downtown
The Joneses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Jones at three addresses in 1940, all on West Cordova 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
22 West Cordova Street
Downtown, 1940
- A Jones 1940
Next door in 1940: Moler Barber School at 20 and Montreal Sec Hd Store at 24. The block, door by door
- 2
50 West Cordova Street
Downtown, 1940
- Charles Jones, retired 1940
Next door in 1940: Hatchery Queen at 36 and C Carlson at 52. The block, door by door
- 3
407 West Cordova Street
Downtown, 1940
- H A Jones, in real estate 1940
Next door in 1940: Textile Dominion at 403 and strachan g ltd at 411. The block, door by door
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 A Jones at 22 West Cordova Street. The 1940 name section lists Charles Jones at 50 West Cordova Street, retired. In 1940 the directory lists H A Jones, in real estate, at 407 West Cordova Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark).
Today
50 West Cordova and 407 West Cordova still have their buildings from before 1946, 407 West Cordova on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 22 West Cordova, 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 A22 West Cordova, p. 309
- Jones Chas retired50 West Cordova, p. 310
- *Jones H A real est407 West Cordova, p. 37
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.