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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Sharps

In the city directories 1940 · 81 addresses on 65 streets

The directories print the Sharp name at 81 addresses on 65 streets in 1940, in 20 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Sharpe. 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 Sharps lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. West End10 addresses
  2. Downtown9 addresses
  3. Kensington-Cedar Cottage9 addresses
  4. Kitsilano6 addresses
  5. Sunset6 addresses
  6. Grandview-Woodland5 addresses
  7. Hastings-Sunrise5 addresses
  8. West Point Grey5 addresses
  9. Kerrisdale3 addresses
  10. Marpole3 addresses
  11. Mount Pleasant3 addresses
  12. Riley Park3 addresses
  13. Shaughnessy3 addresses
  14. Strathcona3 addresses
  15. Dunbar-Southlands2 addresses
  16. Renfrew-Collingwood2 addresses
  17. Arbutus Ridge1 address
  18. Fairview1 address
  19. South Cambie1 address
  20. Victoria-Fraserview1 address

Where the name was printed

The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.

  1. 1
    West 13th AvenueFour addresses in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; four people: C Sharp, G H Sharpe and R F Sharp, and one more
    1940
  2. 2
    Broughton StreetThree addresses in West End; four people: J E Sharp, Mrs E R Sharp and Robert Sharp, and one more
    1940
  3. 3
    East Georgia StreetThree addresses in Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise; three people: G W Sharpe, H Sharpe and William Sharp
    1940
  4. 4
    East Hastings StreetTwo addresses in Downtown and Strathcona; two people: Alfred Sharp and James Sharp
    1940
  5. 5
    Fraser StreetTwo addresses in Riley Park and Sunset; four people: F M Sharp, W R Sharp and Margaret R Sharp, and one more
    1940
  6. 6
    Haro StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: Frances Sharpe and Mrs Margaret Sharp
    1940
  7. 7
    Hudson StreetTwo addresses in Shaughnessy and Marpole; two people: E H Sharp and W H Sharpe
    1940
  8. 8
    Melville StreetTwo addresses in Downtown; two people: James A Sharp and Sharp (no first name printed)
    1940
  9. 9
    Parker StreetTwo addresses in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise; two people: J A Sharpe and W Sharp
    1940
  10. 10
    Robson StreetTwo addresses in West End; four people: H L Sharp, Maureen Sharp and Mrs Irene Sharp, and one more
    1940
  11. 11
    Victoria DriveTwo addresses in Grandview-Woodland and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; two people: Jane Sharp and Mrs A G Sharp
    1940
  12. 12
    West 16th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; five people: L C Sharp, Mrs M M Sharp and Alex C Sharp, and two more
    1940

53 more streets, by name: Alberni Street (1), Angus Drive (1), Blenheim Street (1), Bute Street (1), Commercial Drive (1), Cornwall Avenue (1), Culloden Street (1), Dumfries Street (1), Dunbar Street (1), East 21st Avenue (1), East 23rd Avenue (1), East 26th Avenue (1), East 33rd Avenue (1), East 36th Avenue (1), East 37th Avenue (1), East 42nd Avenue (1), East 54th Avenue (1), East 55th Avenue (1), East 59th Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (1), East Pender Street (1), Gladstone Street (1), Graveley Street (1), Hamilton Street (1), Heather Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Howe Street (1), Inverness Street (1), Kaslo Street (1), Laburnum Street (1), McGill Street (1), McLean Drive (1), Nelson Street (1), Oak Street (1), Powell Street (1), Slocan Street (1), Walden Street (1), West 11th Avenue (1), West 12th Avenue (1), West 14th Avenue (1), West 15th Avenue (1), West 17th Avenue (1), West 23rd Avenue (1), West 37th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (1), West 62nd Avenue (1), West 8th Avenue (1), West Cordova Street (1), West King Edward Avenue (1), West Pender Street (1), Windsor Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 81 addresses, 30 still have their buildings from before 1946, two have buildings standing whose year the City doesn't record, 24 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 25; each street's page names them.

The book of the Sharps

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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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.