A family name on East 16th Avenue, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Thompsons
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Thompson at two addresses in 1940, all on East 16th Avenue. 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 175 other streets too, all listed on the Thompson name's own page.
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Where the Thompsons lived
- 1
254 East 16th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- E C Thompson, a shipper at Ford Motor 1940
- Sarah A Thompson, widow of I F 1940
Next door in 1940: F G Gill at 252 and J W Stevenson at 256. The block, door by door
- 2
460 East 16th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- Edward W Thompson, a mechanic at McDermott Motors 1940
Next door in 1940: G B Severin at 446 and R Page at 480. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a mechanic and a shipper. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Riley Park (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 E C Thompson at 254 East 16th 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 E Clayton Thompson there as the householder, a shipper at Ford Motor, with Sarah A Thompson, widow of I F. The 1940 name section lists Edward W Thompson at 460 East 16th Avenue, a mechanic at McDermott Motors.
Today
254 East 16th and 460 East 16th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Thompson E C254 East 16th, p. 222
- Thompson E Clayton shpr Ford Motor254 East 16th, p. 608
- Thompson Sarah A wid I F254 East 16th, p. 610
- Thompson Edw W mech McDermott Motors460 East 16th, p. 609
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Thompsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Thompson 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.