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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Simpsons

In the city directories 1940 · 166 addresses on 120 streets

The directories print the Simpson name at 166 addresses on 120 streets in 1940, in 21 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Simpsons lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. West End21 addresses
  2. Downtown20 addresses
  3. Hastings-Sunrise16 addresses
  4. Kensington-Cedar Cottage16 addresses
  5. Kitsilano14 addresses
  6. Mount Pleasant14 addresses
  7. Grandview-Woodland12 addresses
  8. Dunbar-Southlands9 addresses
  9. Marpole7 addresses
  10. Fairview6 addresses
  11. Riley Park6 addresses
  12. Renfrew-Collingwood5 addresses
  13. Kerrisdale4 addresses
  14. Strathcona4 addresses
  15. Shaughnessy2 addresses
  16. South Cambie2 addresses
  17. Sunset2 addresses
  18. Victoria-Fraserview2 addresses
  19. West Point Grey2 addresses
  20. Killarney1 address
  21. Oakridge1 address

Where the name was printed

The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.

  1. 1
    Broughton StreetFour addresses in West End; six people: Mrs A L Simpson, W G Simpson, Dorothy P Simpson and three more
    1940
  2. 2
    West 23rd AvenueFour addresses in Riley Park, South Cambie and Dunbar-Southlands; six people: A G Simpson, H H Simpson, Mrs C Simpson and three more
    1940
  3. 3
    West 8th AvenueFour addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and Kitsilano; five people: F A Simpson, J W Simpson, Mrs J A G Simpson and two more
    1940
  4. 4
    Barclay StreetThree addresses in West End; five people: F M Simpson, H Simpson, Joseph H Simpson and two more
    1940
  5. 5
    East Hastings StreetThree addresses in Downtown and Strathcona; three people: Ann Simpson, George A Simpson and John Simpson
    1940
  6. 6
    West 14th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; four people: Mrs E Simpson, R Simpson, Albert V Simpson and one more
    1940
  7. 7
    West BroadwayThree addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; five people: E G Simpson, G Simpson, Emily L Simpson and two more
    1940
  8. 8
    West Georgia StreetThree addresses in Downtown; three people: Harold V Simpson, Lorna C Simpson and W W Simpson
    1940
  9. 9
    Alberta StreetTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant; two people: J Simpson and N Simpson
    1940
  10. 10
    Davie StreetTwo addresses in Downtown and West End; two people: Simpson (no first name printed) and Simpson (no first name printed)
    1940
  11. 11
    Dunsmuir StreetTwo addresses in Downtown; two people: D R A Simpson and Nan Simpson
    1940
  12. 12
    East 10th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; two people: C A Simpson and John O Simpson
    1940

108 more streets, by name: Alberni Street (1), Balsam Street (1), Blenheim Street (1), Burrard Street (1), Cartier Street (1), Charles Street (1), Church Street (1), Churchill Street (1), Collingwood Street (1), Commercial Street (1), Comox Street (1), East 11th Avenue (1), East 16th Avenue (1), East 19th Avenue (1), East 1st Avenue (1), East 20th Avenue (1), East 22nd Avenue (1), East 23rd Avenue (1), East 26th Avenue (1), East 28th Avenue (1), East 30th Avenue (2), East 34th Avenue (1), East 38th Avenue (1), East 3rd Avenue (1), East 40th Avenue (1), East 45th Avenue (2), East 46th Avenue (1), East 51st Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (1), East 6th Avenue (1), East 8th Avenue (2), East Broadway (2), East Cordova Street (1), East Pender Street (2), Eton Street (1), Franklin Street (1), French Street (1), Gilford Street (1), Grant Street (1), Graveley Street (1), Hamilton Street (1), Haro Street (2), Heather Street (1), Helmcken Street (1), Highbury Street (1), Howe Street (1), Hudson Street (2), Jervis Street (1), Joyce Street (1), Kings Avenue (1), Knight Street (1), Little Street (1), Macdonald Street (1), Main Street (2), Maple Street (1), Marguerite Street (1), Maxwell Street (1), McSpadden Avenue (1), Montcalm Street (1), Nanaimo Street (1), Nanton Avenue (1), Napier Street (2), Nelson Street (1), North Garden Drive (1), Ontario Street (1), Osler Street (1), Pacific Street (1), Pandora Street (1), Park Drive (1), Parker Street (1), Pendrell Street (1), Point Grey Road (1), Powell Street (1), Prince Edward Street (1), Quebec Street (1), Renfrew Street (2), Richards Street (1), Robson Street (2), Shaughnessy Street (1), Smithe Street (1), Templeton Drive (1), Thurlow Street (2), Trinity Street (1), Triumph Street (1), Turner Street (2), Vanness Avenue (1), Venables Street (2), Wall Street (1), Water Street (2), Waterloo Street (1), Welwyn Street (1), West 10th Avenue (1), West 11th Avenue (2), West 13th Avenue (2), West 15th Avenue (2), West 1st Avenue (1), West 27th Avenue (1), West 34th Avenue (1), West 37th Avenue (2), West 38th Avenue (1), West 42nd Avenue (2), West 6th Avenue (2), West 7th Avenue (2), West Cordova Street (1), West Hastings Street (2), West Pender Street (1), Windsor Street (1), Woodland Drive (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 166 addresses, 59 still have their buildings from before 1946, one has a building standing whose year the City doesn't record, 36 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 70; each street's page names them.

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under S. Want a name removed? Tell us.