A family name on Broughton Street, West End
The Sharps
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Sharp at three addresses in 1940, all on Broughton Street, with the close spelling Sharpe. 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 64 other streets too, all listed on the Sharp name's own page.
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Where the Sharps lived
- 1
850 Broughton Street
West End, 1940
- William Sharpe, a driver at McGavin 1940
Next door in 1940: L Halliday at 838 and Miss E I Skene at 874. The block, door by door
- 2
978 Broughton Street
West End, 1940
- Mrs E R Sharp 1940
- Robert Sharp, a dishwasher at the Georgia Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: G C Hodge at 958 and W Johncox at 990. The block, door by door
- 3
1091 Broughton Street
West End, 1940
- J E Sharp, an accountant at the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1940
Next door in 1940: W H Bamford at 1019. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an accountant, a dishwasher and a driver.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (3). 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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Sharpe at 850 Broughton Street, a driver at McGavin. The 1940 name section lists Mrs E R Sharp at 978 Broughton Street, with Robert Sharp, a dishwasher at the Georgia Hotel. In 1940 the directory lists J E Sharp at 1091 Broughton Street. The 1940 name section lists James E Sharp there as the householder, an accountant at the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
Today
1091 Broughton still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 850 Broughton and 978 Broughton, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Sharpe Wm drvr McGavin850 Broughton, p. 554
- Sharp Mrs E R978 Broughton, p. 553
- Sharp Robt dishwasher Georgia Hotel978 Broughton, p. 554
- Sharp J E1091 Broughton, p. 20
- Sharp Jas E acct CB of C1091 Broughton, p. 554
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Sharps
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Sharp 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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Another name, or a house
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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.