A family name on West 31st Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands and Arbutus Ridge
The Nicholses
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Nichols at one address, 3382 West 31st Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940, with the close spellings Nicholls, Nicholas and Nicholles. The directories print the name on 52 other streets too, all listed on the Nichols name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Nicholses at home
Southlands
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3382 West 31st Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- A L Nicholas, a clerk at the Post Office 1940
Next door in 1940: W M MacKenzie at 3372 and A C H Squires at 3394. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a clerk.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 A L Nicholas at 3382 West 31st 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 Archibald L Nicholas there as the householder, a clerk at the Post Office.
Today
3382 West 31st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1938 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Nicholas A L3382 West 31st, p. 247
- Nicholas Arch L clk PO3382 West 31st, p. 459
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Nicholses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Nichols 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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.