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A family name on East 6th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Taylors

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at four addresses

The directories print seven people named Taylor at four addresses in 1940, all on East 6th Avenue, with the close spelling Tylor. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 214 other streets too, all listed on the Taylor name's own page.

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Where the Taylors lived

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).
  1. 1

    387 East 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • T Taylor, a longshoreman 1940
    • Muriel J Taylor, a boundary at Anderson Printing 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Golightly at 357. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    780 East 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • H McG Taylor, of White & Taylor 1940
    • Isabella Taylor, a saleswoman at Hutchinson Bros 1940

    Next door in 1940: J White at 770 and W J Holtom at 790. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2266 East 6th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • T I Taylor, a decorator 1940

    Next door in 1940: J K MacKenzie at 2260 and J Carter at 2296. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2985 East 6th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • N J Taylor, a carpenter 1940
    • Roy Taylor, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Harris at 2977. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a boundary, a carpenter, a laborer, a longshoreman and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2), Grandview-Woodland and 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 T Taylor at 387 East 6th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas Taylor there as the householder, a longshoreman, with Muriel J Taylor, a boundary at Anderson Printing. In 1940 the directory lists H McG Taylor at 780 East 6th Avenue; 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 Hugh McG Taylor there as the householder, of White & Taylor, with Isabella Taylor, a saleswoman at Hutchinson Bros.

In 1940 the directory lists T I Taylor, a decorator, at 2266 East 6th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. N J Taylor is listed at 2985 East 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Norman J Taylor there as the householder, a carpenter, with Roy Taylor, a laborer.

Today

2266 East 6th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record; 780 East 6th (1969) and 2985 East 6th (1986) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 387 East 6th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.