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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Picketts

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Pickett at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Picketts at 875 East 10th in 1940.

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Where the Picketts 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

    875 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • D Pickett, a painter 1940
    • Annie C Pickett, a saleswoman at Dunbar Table Supplies 1940
    • Cornelius Pickett, a weaver at the CN Institute 1940
    • Mary H Pickett, a saleswoman at Dunbar Table Supplies 1940

    Next door in 1940: Rev A W Patrick at 867. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2485 West 16th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • A G Pickett, a painter and decorator 1940

    Next door in 1940: H C Skinner at 2475. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1902 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H B Pickett, a tinsmith at Pioneer Heating Experts 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr H Kami-Takahara at 1910. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all six: a saleswoman (2), a painter, a painter and decorator, a tinsmith and a weaver. Two of them worked for Dunbar Table Supplies.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge, Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. 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 D Pickett at 875 East 10th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Dick Pickett there as the householder, a painter, with Annie C Pickett, a saleswoman at Dunbar Table Supplies, Cornelius Pickett, a weaver at the CN Institute, and Mary H Pickett, a saleswoman at Dunbar Table Supplies. In 1940 the directory lists A G Pickett, a painter, at 2485 West 16th 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 lists A George Pickett there, a painter and decorator.

The 1940 name section lists H B Pickett at 1902 West 6th Avenue, a tinsmith at Pioneer Heating Experts.

Today

2485 West 16th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1939 by the City's record; 875 East 10th (1978) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1902 West 6th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Picketts

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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.