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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Mewhorts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Mewhort at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Mewhorts 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

    1024 Cotton Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J Mewhort 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Wilkie at 1018. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1012 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • W Mewhort 1940
  3. 3

    1561 West 5th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs L M Mewhort, a laundress at Sterling Laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: C L Reeve at 1547 and Mrs J Frith at 1563. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 J Mewhort at 1024 Cotton Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists W Mewhort at 1012 Main Street. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs L M Mewhort at 1561 West 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Lillian M Mewhort there as the householder, a laundress at Sterling Laundry.

Today

1012 Main still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1024 Cotton Drive and 1561 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, street section

The book of the Mewhorts

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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.