A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Sharps
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Sharp at one address, 1765 East 7th Avenue in Grandview-Woodland, 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
Woodland
- 1
1765 East 7th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- T H Sharp, retired 1940
- James C Sharp, a craneman at Overseas Wood Products 1940
- Nora M Sharp, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
- Thomas M Sharp, a craneman at Overseas Wood Products 1940
Next door in 1940: J W Mallandain at 1755 and G F Johnston at 1777. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a craneman (2) and an operator. Two of them worked for Overseas Wood Products.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 T H Sharp at 1765 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas H Sharp there as the householder, retired, with James C Sharp, a craneman at Overseas Wood Products, Nora M Sharp, an operator at the BC Telephone, and Thomas M Sharp, a craneman at Overseas Wood Products.
Today
1765 East 7th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Sharp T H1765 East 7th, p. 190
- Sharp Jas C cranemn Overseas Wood Prod1765 East 7th, p. 554
- Sharp Nora M opr BC Tel1765 East 7th, p. 554
- Sharp Thos H retired1765 East 7th, p. 554
- Sharp Thos M cranemn Overseas Wood Prod1765 East 7th, 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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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.