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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Skillings

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Skilling at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Skillings lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3568 Blenheim Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W M Skilling, a shopman at the Canadian (BC) Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: A P Black at 3544 and W Morgan at 3586. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1311 East 13th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Lilias Skilling, widow of T 1940

    Next door in 1940: J R Houston at 1317. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1036 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • William H Skilling 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Chalmers at 1034 and W Flynn at 1042. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a shopman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and West End. 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 W M Skilling at 3568 Blenheim 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 William M Skilling there as the householder, a shopman at the Canadian (BC) Telephone. The 1940 name section lists Lilias Skilling at 1311 East 13th Avenue, widow of T. The 1940 name section lists William H Skilling at 1036 Haro Street.

Today

3568 Blenheim (1980) and 1311 East 13th (2018) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1036 Haro, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.