A family name on Melville Street, Downtown
The Sharps
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Sharp at two addresses in 1940, all on Melville Street, with the close spelling Sharpe. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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
1043 Melville Street
Downtown, 1940
- James A Sharp, a bookkeeper for Melrose Dairies 1940
Next door in 1940: J G Hale at 1039 and Mrs M C Doy at 1045. The block, door by door
- 2
1164 Melville Street
Downtown, 1940
- Sharp (no first name printed) 1940
Next door in 1940: J F Gillespie at 1158 and W Aconley at 1174. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a bookkeeper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (2). 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 James A Sharp at 1043 Melville Street, a bookkeeper for Melrose Dairies. The 1940 name section lists Sharp (no first name printed) at 1164 Melville Street.
Today
The City no longer lists 1043 Melville and 1164 Melville, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Sharp Jas A bkpr Melrose Dairies1043 Melville, p. 554
- Sharp Mrs —1164 Melville, p. 553
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.