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

The Taylors

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Taylor at two addresses in 1940, all on Pandora 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 most under one roof: five Taylors at 2537 Pandora 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2537 Pandora Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Miss H D Taylor 1940
    • Helen D Taylor 1940
    • Clarence A Taylor, a laborer 1940
    • Percy B Taylor, a clerk at Gehrkes 1940
    • W Arthur Taylor, a painter 1940

    Next door in 1940: H W Simpson at 2521 and J Kendrick at 2543. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3440 Pandora Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • W H Taylor 1940

    Next door in 1940: S H Waterhouse at 3438 and R H Johnson at 3446. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a clerk, a laborer and a painter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (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 Miss H D Taylor at 2537 Pandora Street; 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 Helen D Taylor there as the householder, with Clarence A Taylor, a laborer, Percy B Taylor, a clerk at Gehrkes, and W Arthur Taylor, a painter. In 1940 the directory lists W H Taylor at 3440 Pandora Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William H Taylor there as the householder.

Today

2537 Pandora (2000) has a newer building, by the City's record; for 3440 Pandora, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 7 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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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.