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A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Taylors

In the city directories 1940 · twelve people at seven addresses

The directories print twelve people named Taylor at seven addresses in 1940, all on East 7th 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 most under one roof: four Taylors at 815 East 7th in 1940. 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. Two addresses aren't on today's map, so they have no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    543 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Annie Taylor 1940

    Next door in 1940: boisdale court at 537 and L R Edge at 557. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    702 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Gleeda M Taylor, of Imperial Cleaning & Dye Works 1940

    Next door in 1940: P F Sheehan at 710. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    815 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Miss E M Taylor 1940
    • Edna M Taylor, a school teacher 1940
    • Annie Taylor 1940
    • Arthur J Taylor, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: N H Gregson at 803 and J Young at 825. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1042 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • S W Taylor 1940
    • Helen M Taylor, a stenographer at the Boy Scouts Association 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs G Schulstad at 1016. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1733 East 7th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • D Taylor, on active service 1940
    • Leonora A Taylor 1940

    Next door in 1940: T W O'Hern at 1717 and Miss R Mould at 1737. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    1817 East 7th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • C E Taylor, a warehouseman at Johnston National Storage 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Johnson at 1813 and H R Hetherington at 1829. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    2266 East 7th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • T I Taylor, a painter 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Macaskill at 2264 and E W Marston at 2274. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the twelve: a carpenter, an on active service, a school teacher, a stenographer and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (4) and Grandview-Woodland (3). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Annie Taylor at 543 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Gleeda M Taylor at 702 East 7th Avenue, of Imperial Cleaning & Dye Works. In 1940 the directory lists Miss E M Taylor at 815 East 7th 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 Edna M Taylor there as the householder, a school teacher, with Annie Taylor, and Arthur J Taylor, a carpenter.

In 1940 the directory lists S W Taylor at 1042 East 7th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Steph W Taylor there as the householder, with Helen M Taylor, a stenographer at the Boy Scouts Association. In 1940 the directory lists D Taylor at 1733 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists David Taylor there as the householder, on active service, with Leonora A Taylor.

In 1940 the directory lists C E Taylor at 1817 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Clarence E Taylor there as the householder, a warehouseman at Johnston National Storage. In 1940 the directory lists T I Taylor, a painter, at 2266 East 7th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too.

Today

1733 East 7th and 1817 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 543 East 7th, 702 East 7th, 815 East 7th, 1042 East 7th and 2266 East 7th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 15 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.