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A family name on West 5th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Matthewses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Matthews at three addresses in 1940, all on West 5th Avenue, with the close spelling Mathews. 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 62 other streets too, all listed on the Matthews name's own page.

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Where the Matthewses 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

    1767 West 5th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • John E Matthews 1940

    Next door in 1940: M J Kemmis at 1761 and W Mercer at 1773. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2133 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • D E Mathews, an accountant at Smith Bros & Wilson 1940

    Next door in 1940: J E Sparkes at 2125 and R D Taylor at 2137. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2157 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • William H Mathews, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Goodall at 2163. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an accountant.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2) and Fairview. 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 John E Matthews at 1767 West 5th Avenue. D E Mathews is listed at 2133 West 5th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Doug E Mathews there as the householder, an accountant at Smith Bros & Wilson. The 1940 name section lists William H Mathews at 2157 West 5th Avenue, a student at UBC.

Today

The City no longer lists 1767 West 5th, 2133 West 5th and 2157 West 5th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Matthewses

Every directory, as one book

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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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.