A family name on East 38th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Thompsons
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Thompson at one address, 35 East 38th Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940. The directories print the name on 175 other streets too, all listed on the Thompson name's own page.
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The Thompsons at home
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35 East 38th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- E W Thompson, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
- James Thompson, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
- Marian K Thompson, a student 1940
- Richard Thompson 1940
Next door in 1940: T Hastie at 19 and D Gordon at 49. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a conductor and a motorman. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 W Thompson at 35 East 38th 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 Edgar W Thompson there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway, with James Thompson, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, Marian K Thompson, a student, and Richard Thompson.
Today
The City no longer lists 35 East 38th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Thompson E W35 East 38th, p. 254
- Thompson Edgar W cond BCER35 East 38th, p. 609
- Thompson Jas mtrmn BCER35 East 38th, p. 609
- Thompson Marian K studt35 East 38th, p. 610
- Thompson Richd35 East 38th, p. 610
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.