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

The Taylors

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Taylor at two addresses in 1940, all on Eton Street, with the close spelling Tylor. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

    2259 Eton Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R P Taylor, a laborer at the Vancouver Parks Board 1940
    • Edgar R Taylor, a deckhand 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A M Gibbens at 2255 and J Candido at 2261. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2474 Eton Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • L W Taylor, a supervisor at American Can 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D Johnson at 2466 and C T Johnson at 2486. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a deckhand, a laborer and a supervisor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in 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 R P Taylor at 2259 Eton Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert P Taylor there as the householder, a laborer at the Vancouver Parks Board, with Edgar R Taylor, a deckhand. In 1940 the directory lists L W Taylor at 2474 Eton Street. The 1940 name section lists Len W Taylor there as the householder, a supervisor at American Can.

Today

2474 Eton (2018) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2259 Eton, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Taylors

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 T. Want a name removed? Tell us.