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A family name on Napier Street, Hastings-Sunrise, Strathcona and Grandview-Woodland

The Thompsons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Thompson at one address, 2229 Napier Street in Grandview-Woodland, 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

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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    2229 Napier Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • James Thompson, a carpenter at BC Sugar 1940
    • Anne Thompson, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
    • Elizabeth Thompson, who worked for the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Alberts at 2217 and A W J Armstrong at 2243. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a carpenter, an employee and an operator. Two of them worked for BC Telephone.

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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James Thompson at 2229 Napier Street as the householder, a carpenter at BC Sugar, with James Thompson, a carpenter at BC Sugar, James Thompson, a carpenter at BC Sugar, Anne Thompson, an operator at the BC Telephone, and Elizabeth Thompson, who worked for the BC Telephone.

Today

2229 Napier still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.

A family with a covered wagon, their horses and a foal on Napier Street
About 1918 A family with a covered wagon, their horses and a foal on Napier Street. Not at the house at 2229 Napier: no archive photo of the 2200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, SGN 1548. 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.