A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Pumps
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Pump at one address, 1025 East 54th Avenue in Sunset, in 1940.
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The Pumps at home
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1025 East 54th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- K W Pump, a laborer 1940
- Arthur Pump, a branch manager at Wilbee's Service Stores 1940
- Karl K Pump, a student 1940
- Lydia Pump, a shade maker 1940
- William Pump, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: Neufeldt (no first name printed) at 1005 and J F Jellett at 1095. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a branch manager, a laborer, a longshoreman and a shade maker.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 K W Pump at 1025 East 54th 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 Karl W Pump there as the householder, a laborer, with Arthur Pump, a branch manager at Wilbee's Service Stores, Karl K Pump, a student, Lydia Pump, a shade maker, and William Pump, a longshoreman.
Today
1025 East 54th (2003) 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.
- *Pump K W1025 East 54th, p. 267
- Pump Arth br mgr Wilbee's Serv Stores1025 East 54th, p. 506
- Pump Karl K studt1025 East 54th, p. 506
- Pump Karl W lab1025 East 54th, p. 506
- Pump Lydia shade mkr1025 East 54th, p. 506
- Pump Wm lngshmn1025 East 54th, p. 506
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Pumps
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Pump 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: 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.