A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Shorthouses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Shorthouse at two addresses in 1940 in Renfrew-Collingwood. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Shorthouses lived
- 1
4856 Chatham Street
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- Leslie A Shorthouse, a sander at BC Plywoods 1940
Next door in 1940: A W Packman at 4846. The block, door by door
- 2
3211 Wellington Avenue
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- E W Shorthouse, a mechanic at Bearing Supplies House 1940
- D Shorthouse, a telephone operator at the Bank of Nova Scotia 1940
Next door in 1940: J E Way at 3203 and J A Stewart at 3219. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a mechanic, a sander and a telephone operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Renfrew-Collingwood (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 Leslie A Shorthouse at 4856 Chatham Street, a sander at BC Plywoods. E W Shorthouse is listed at 3211 Wellington 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 Ernest W Shorthouse there as the householder, a mechanic at Bearing Supplies House, with D Shorthouse, a clerk for W H Malkin, and Dora Shorthouse, a telephone operator at the Bank of Nova Scotia.
Today
3211 Wellington still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record; 4856 Chatham (2020) has a newer building, 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.
- Shorthouse Leslie A sander BC Plywoods4856 Chatham, p. 559
- *Shorthouse E W3211 Wellington, p. 166
- Shorthouse D clk W H Malkin3211 Wellington, p. 559
- Shorthouse Dora tel opr Bk of NS3211 Wellington, p. 559
- Shorthouse Ernest W mech Bearing Supp House3211 Wellington, p. 559
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Shorthouses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Shorthouse 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.