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A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Taylors

In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses

The directories print five people named Taylor at five addresses in 1940, all on West 1st 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1862 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • S D Taylor, a building contractor 1940

    Next door in 1940: J S Morrison at 1858 and R F Tait at 1870. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2060 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • F E Taylor, a salesman at Lions Gate Tobacco 1940

    Next door in 1940: S F Bradley at 2056 and L M Loftus at 2072. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2123 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • R C Taylor, a cleaner at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Upham at 2117 and Mrs E P Neilly at 2127. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3112 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W H Taylor, a stage hand at the Strand Theatre 1940

    Next door in 1940: A L Whalen at 3106 and Mrs M Eide at 3118. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3756 West 1st Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • R D Taylor, a department manager at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Noble at 3744 and Mrs D Soule at 3768. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a cleaner, a department manager, a salesman and a stage hand.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (4) and West Point Grey. 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 S D Taylor, a building contractor, at 1862 West 1st 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). F E Taylor is listed at 2060 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frederick E Taylor there as the householder, a salesman at Lions Gate Tobacco.

R C Taylor is listed at 2123 West 1st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Robert C Taylor there as the householder, a cleaner at the Hudson's Bay Company. W H Taylor is listed at 3112 West 1st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William H Taylor there as the householder, a stage hand at the Strand Theatre.

R D Taylor is listed at 3756 West 1st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists R Dick Taylor there as the householder, a department manager at Spencer's.

Today

3756 West 1st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1932 by the City's record; 2060 West 1st (1957) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1862 West 1st, 2123 West 1st and 3112 West 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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.