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A family name on West 24th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The Thompsons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Thompson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 24th 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

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).
  1. 1

    654 West 24th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Mrs Audrey Thompson 1940

    Next door in 1940: S J Collins at 646 and W E Lindsay at 660. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3079 West 24th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • E Langhorne Thompson, widow of E 1940

    Next door in 1940: B E Wales at 3065 and R D Bell at 3095. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and South Cambie. 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 Mrs Audrey Thompson at 654 West 24th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists E Langhorne Thompson at 3079 West 24th Avenue, widow of E.

Today

3079 West 24th (2009) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 654 West 24th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 2 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

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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.