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A family name on Clark Drive, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant

The Thomases

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Thomas at one address, 2081 Clark Drive in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940, with the close spelling Thoms. The directories print the name on 126 other streets too, all listed on the Thomas name's own page.

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The Thomases at home

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).
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    2081 Clark Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E F Thomas, a foreman at the Great Northern Railway 1940
    • Harold Thomas, a carpenter 1940
    • Leonard Thomas, a sectionman at the National Harbours Board 1940
    • Lucille E Thomas, a student 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a carpenter, a foreman and a sectionman.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 E F Thomas at 2081 Clark Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ernest F Thomas there as the householder, a foreman at the Great Northern Railway, with Harold Thomas, a carpenter, Leonard Thomas, a sectionman at the National Harbours Board, and Lucille E Thomas, a student.

Today

The City no longer lists 2081 Clark Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Children on the grounds of the open-air school at 20th Avenue and Clark Drive
About 1926 Children on the grounds of the open-air school at 20th Avenue and Clark Drive. Not at the house at 2081 Clark Drive: no archive photo of the 2000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 96-1. Public domain.

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 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.