A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Phillipses
In the city directories 1940 · 123 addresses on 86 streets
The directories print the Phillips name at 123 addresses on 86 streets in 1940, in 19 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Philips. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.
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Where the Phillipses lived
- West End20 addresses
- Kitsilano19 addresses
- Downtown15 addresses
- Fairview11 addresses
- Kensington-Cedar Cottage11 addresses
- Grandview-Woodland10 addresses
- Mount Pleasant8 addresses
- Dunbar-Southlands6 addresses
- Hastings-Sunrise4 addresses
- Riley Park4 addresses
- West Point Grey3 addresses
- Marpole2 addresses
- Renfrew-Collingwood2 addresses
- Strathcona2 addresses
- Sunset2 addresses
- Kerrisdale1 address
- Oakridge1 address
- Shaughnessy1 address
- Victoria-Fraserview1 address
Where the name was printed
The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.
- 1Bidwell StreetFour addresses in West End; five people: G M Phillips, R K Phillips and Charlotte A Phillips, and two more1940
- 2East 1st AvenueThree addresses in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise; three people: E Phillips, G A Phillips and Frank N Phillips1940
- 3East 8th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Grandview-Woodland; four people: A Phillips, F W Phillips and T Phillips, and one more1940
- 4West 10th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; three people: R G Phillips, S H Phillips and J E Phillips1940
- 5West 15th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; three people: D J Phillips, H H Phillips and Mrs A Phillips1940
- 6West 2nd AvenueThree addresses in Kitsilano and West Point Grey; three people: A E Phillips, F W Phillips and W Phillips1940
- 7West 3rd AvenueThree addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; three people: Mrs F Phillips, R Phillips and June N Phillips1940
- 8West 8th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Kitsilano; four people: I L Phillips, R G Phillips and Lavinia J Philips, and one more1940
- 9Arbutus StreetTwo addresses in Kitsilano; two people: N Phillips and W S Phillips1940
- 10Barclay StreetTwo addresses in West End; three people: Ernest Phillips, Irene Phillips and Miss I Phillips1940
- 11Blenheim StreetTwo addresses in Dunbar-Southlands; four people: E A Phillips, G L Phillips and Letitia J Phillips, and one more1940
- 12Burrard StreetTwo addresses in Downtown; two people: John W Phillips and William C Phillips1940
74 more streets, by name: Alberni Street (1), Birch Street (1), Cambie Street (2), Davie Street (2), Denman Street (2), Dumfries Street (1), Dunsmuir Street (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 11th Avenue (1), East 29th Avenue (1), East 2nd Avenue (1), East 30th Avenue (1), East 32nd Avenue (2), East 35th Avenue (1), East 37th Avenue (1), East 3rd Avenue (1), East 43rd Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (1), East 6th Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (2), East Broadway (1), East Hastings Street (1), East Pender Street (1), Glen Drive (1), Granville Street (1), Guelph Street (1), Haro Street (1), Helmcken Street (1), Hornby Street (2), Hudson Street (1), Inverness Street (1), Jervis Street (2), Kingsway (2), Knight Street (1), Macdonald Street (1), Main Street (1), Maple Street (2), McLean Drive (1), Nelson Street (2), Nicola Street (2), North Templeton Drive (1), Powell Street (1), Quebec Street (1), Renfrew Street (1), Richards Street (1), Robson Street (1), Seymour Street (1), Sherbrooke Street (1), Sophia Street (1), Thurlow Street (2), Turner Street (1), Wall Street (1), West 11th Avenue (2), West 12th Avenue (2), West 13th Avenue (1), West 14th Avenue (1), West 16th Avenue (1), West 18th Avenue (1), West 1st Avenue (1), West 30th Avenue (1), West 31st Avenue (1), West 32nd Avenue (1), West 35th Avenue (1), West 47th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (1), West 65th Avenue (1), West 66th Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (1), West Broadway (2), West Georgia Street (2), West Pender Street (1), Wolfe Avenue (1), Woodland Drive (1).
Today
By the City's record, of the 123 addresses, 38 still have their buildings from before 1946, one has a building standing whose year the City doesn't record, 30 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 54; each street's page names them.
The book of the Phillipses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Phillips 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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Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under P. Want a name removed? Tell us.