A family name on West 51st Avenue, Kerrisdale and Dunbar-Southlands
The Thomases
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Thomas at one address, 2163 West 51st Avenue in Kerrisdale, 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
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2163 West 51st Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- R Thoms, proprietor of BC Printers Supplies 1940
Next door in 1940: D Murphy Jr at 2157 and T A Turnbull at 2169. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kerrisdale. 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 R Thoms at 2163 West 51st 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 Robert Thoms there as the householder, proprietor of BC Printers Supplies.
Today
2163 West 51st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Thoms R2163 West 51st, p. 266
- Thoms Robt prop BC Prntrs Supp2163 West 51st, p. 610
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Thomases
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Thomas 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.