A family name on Dunbar Street, Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano
The Sharps
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Sharp at one address, 3631 Dunbar Street in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940, with the close spelling Sharpe. The directories print the name on 64 other streets too, all listed on the Sharp name's own page.
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The Sharps at home
Southlands
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3631 Dunbar Street
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- J A B Sharp, a salesman at Spencer's 1940
- Don R Sharp, a clerk at Spencer's 1940
- J Doug Sharp, a cost clerk at National Paper Box 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss V Casey at 3607 and A Sweetable at 3643. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a cost clerk and a salesman. Two of them worked for Spencer's.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 J A B Sharp at 3631 Dunbar Street; 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 John A B Sharp there as the householder, a salesman at Spencer's, with Don R Sharp, a clerk at Spencer's, and J Doug Sharp, a cost clerk at National Paper Box.
Today
3631 Dunbar (2016) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Sharp J A B3631 Dunbar, p. 44
- Sharp Don R clk Spencers3631 Dunbar, p. 553
- Sharp J Doug cost clk Natl Paper Box3631 Dunbar, p. 554
- Sharp John A B slsmn Spencers3631 Dunbar, p. 554
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.