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A family name on West 13th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Sharps

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Sharp at four addresses in 1940, all on West 13th Avenue, 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

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    306 West 13th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Eleanor Sharp, a technician at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
  2. 2

    1894 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • R F Sharp, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Oliver at 1886 and D P McCallum at 1896. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2841 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C Sharp, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Blackmun at 2835 and J M Morrow at 2845. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4157 West 13th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • G H Sharpe, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: H T Westmacott at 4153 and E S Jackson at 4167. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a longshoreman, a school teacher and a technician.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2), Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Eleanor Sharp at 306 West 13th Avenue, a technician at the Vancouver General Hospital. R F Sharp is listed at 1894 West 13th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Robert F Sharp there as the householder, a school teacher.

C Sharp is listed at 2841 West 13th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Charles Sharp there as the householder, a longshoreman. G H Sharpe is listed at 4157 West 13th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists George H Sharpe there as the householder, retired.

Today

306 West 13th, 1894 West 13th and 2841 West 13th still have their buildings from before 1946; 4157 West 13th (2014) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Sharps

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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.