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A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Phillipses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Phillips at two addresses in 1940, all on Kingsway, with the close spelling Philips. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

    1031 Kingsway

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs A E Phillips, widow of J 1940
    • Charles J Phillips, a laborer for Martin Senour 1940

    Next door in 1940: I W McDonagh at 1025 and Mrs J Drinkwater at 1035. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2396 Kingsway

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • C Phillips, a butcher 1940
    • Jean M Phillips, a domestic 1940

    Next door in 1940: H H Pickford at 2384. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a butcher, a domestic and a laborer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 Mrs A E Phillips at 1031 Kingsway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ada E Phillips there as the householder, widow of J, with Charles J Phillips, a laborer for Martin Senour. In 1940 the directory lists C Phillips at 2396 Kingsway. The 1940 name section lists Charles Phillips there as the householder, a butcher, with Jean M Phillips, a domestic.

Today

2396 Kingsway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; 1031 Kingsway (1979) has a newer building, by the City's record.

People in open cars gathered for a car rally on Kingsway
1913 People in open cars gathered for a car rally on Kingsway. Not at the house at 1031 Kingsway: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 371-2294. Public domain.

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

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.