A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Taaffes
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Taaffe at one address, 3329 West 42nd Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940.
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The Taaffes at home
Southlands
- 1
3329 West 42nd Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- F F Taaffe, a secretary-treasurer for W J Taaffe 1940
- J W Farrell Taaffe, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: J R S Lough at 3349. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a secretary-treasurer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 F F Taaffe at 3329 West 42nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank F Taaffe there as the householder, a secretary-treasurer for W J Taaffe, with J W Farrell Taaffe, a student.
Today
3329 West 42nd (2015) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Taaffe F F3329 West 42nd, p. 259
- Taaffe Frank F sec-treas W J Taaffe3329 West 42nd, p. 599
- Taaffe J W Farrell studt3329 West 42nd, p. 599
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Taaffes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Taaffe 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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.