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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Nightscaleses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Nightscales at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Nightscaleses 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

    40 East 45th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • E Nightscales, a warehouseman at Imperial Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Moore at 26 and E McGill at 70. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    580 East 56th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • H S Nightscales, a patternmaker 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Drysdale at 566 and W W Webster at 596. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3142 West 34th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W Nightscales, a clerk at the Royal Bank 1940

    Next door in 1940: K C Keefer at 3126 and J A Barnwell at 3158. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a patternmaker and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Sunset (2) and 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 E Nightscales at 40 East 45th 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 Edward Nightscales there as the householder, a warehouseman at Imperial Oil. In 1940 the directory lists H S Nightscales at 580 East 56th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Henry S Nightscales there as the householder, a patternmaker.

In 1940 the directory lists W Nightscales at 3142 West 34th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William Nightscales there as the householder, a clerk at the Royal Bank.

Today

40 East 45th and 3142 West 34th still have their buildings from before 1946; 580 East 56th (1995) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.