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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Lyttletons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Lyttleton at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Lyttletons at 4663 West 12th in 1940.

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Where the Lyttletons lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    5830 Hudson Street

    Oakridge, 1940

    • Harry A Lyttleton, of Lyttleton Bros 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Mare at 5810 and S W Neill at 5850. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4663 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • T A Lyttleton, of Lyttleton Bros 1940
    • Hugh A Lyttleton, a student at UBC 1940
    • T Burns Lyttleton, an attendant at Consumers Tires 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Thomson at 4649 and C G Heaven at 4673. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: an attendant.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Oakridge 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 Harry A Lyttleton at 5830 Hudson Street, of Lyttleton Bros. T A Lyttleton is listed at 4663 West 12th 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). The 1940 name section lists Thomas A Lyttleton there as the householder, of Lyttleton Bros, with Hugh A Lyttleton, a student at UBC, and T Burns Lyttleton, an attendant at Consumers Tires.

Today

4663 West 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5830 Hudson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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

The book of the Lyttletons

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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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.