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A family name on Bruce Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The Thomases

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Thomas at two addresses in 1940, all on Bruce Street, with the close spelling Thoms. 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 126 other streets too, all listed on the Thomas name's own page.

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Where the Thomases 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

    4718 Bruce Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs Annie Thomas 1940

    Next door in 1940: G M Wyper at 4704 and J J Lamb at 4732. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5586 Bruce Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • R P Thomas, a refrigeration inspector at the CPR 1940
    • Margaret P Thomas, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: W T Cran at 5568 and G Nash at 5592. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a refrigeration inspector.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Annie Thomas at 4718 Bruce Street. R P Thomas is listed at 5586 Bruce Street in 1940; 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 Rhys P Thomas there as the householder, a refrigeration inspector at the CPR, with Margaret P Thomas, a student.

Today

4718 Bruce (1977) and 5586 Bruce (1994) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 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

The book of the Thomases

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.