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A family name on East 1st Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Phillipses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Phillips at three addresses in 1940, all on East 1st Avenue, with the close spelling Philips. 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 85 other streets too, all listed on the Phillips name's own page.

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Where the Phillipses 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

    1410 East 1st Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E Phillips, a laborer at the Great Northern Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: D J Russell at 1404 and N Traff at 1416. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1822 East 1st Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Frank N Phillips, a fireman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J Hornall at 1808 and F W Brawn at 1830. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2793 East 1st Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • G A Phillips, a watchman at the Great Northern Dock 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Wright at 2787. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a fireman, a laborer and a watchman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Phillips at 1410 East 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ernest Phillips there as the householder, a laborer at the Great Northern Railway. The 1940 name section lists Frank N Phillips at 1822 East 1st Avenue, a fireman.

G A Phillips is listed at 2793 East 1st Avenue in 1940; 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 lists George A Phillips there as the householder, a watchman at the Great Northern Dock.

Today

1410 East 1st, 1822 East 1st and 2793 East 1st still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Phillipses

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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.