A family name on Langara Avenue, West Point Grey
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 Langara Avenue, 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
- 1
4515 Langara Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- C R Taylor, an office manager at Canadian Banana 1940
- Emily A Taylor, widow of R 1940
Next door in 1940: G N Muir at 4505 and L G Plowright at 4529. The block, door by door
- 2
4579 Langara Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- Frederick Taylor, a student at UBC 1940
Next door in 1940: W R Schwalm at 4563 and G A Jones at 4585. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an office manager. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West Point Grey (2). 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 C R Taylor at 4515 Langara 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Clarence R Taylor there as the householder, an office manager at Canadian Banana, with Emily A Taylor, widow of R. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Taylor at 4579 Langara Avenue, a student at UBC.
Today
4515 Langara and 4579 Langara still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Taylor C R4515 Langara, p. 101
- Taylor Clarence R office mgr Canadian Banana4515 Langara, p. 602
- Taylor Emily A wid R4515 Langara, p. 602
- Taylor Fredk studt UBC4579 Langara, p. 602
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Taylors
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Taylor 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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Another name, or a house
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.