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A family name on Eton Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland

The Simpsons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address

The directories print five people named Simpson at one address, 2856 Eton Street in Hastings-Sunrise, in 1940. The directories print the name on 119 other streets too, all listed on the Simpson name's own page.

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The Simpsons at home

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).
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    2856 Eton Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Mrs M Simpson, widow of J P 1940
    • Hendry C Simpson, an office boy at BC Motor Transportation 1940
    • James T Simpson, a secretary-treasurer at Irvine, Simpson & Wyness 1940
    • John A Simpson 1940
    • Norma Simpson 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Mettam at 2854 and W. A Ballentine at 2880. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: an office boy and a secretary-treasurer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Mrs M Simpson at 2856 Eton Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Margaret Simpson there as the householder, widow of J P, with Hendry C Simpson, an office boy at BC Motor Transportation, James T Simpson, a secretary-treasurer at Irvine, Simpson & Wyness, John A Simpson, and Norma Simpson.

Today

2856 Eton still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Simpsons

Every directory, as one book

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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.