A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey
The Thomsons
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Thomson at one address, 2155 West 1st Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940, with the close spellings Thomason and Thomasson. The directories print the name on 119 other streets too, all listed on the Thomson name's own page.
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The Thomsons at home
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2155 West 1st Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- A A Thomson, an inspector at the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau 1940
Next door in 1940: S W Hungerford at 2147 and M Crowe at 2171. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: an inspector.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 A A Thomson at 2155 West 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alex A Thomson there as the householder, an inspector at the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau.
Today
The City no longer lists 2155 West 1st, 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.
- Thomson A A2155 West 1st, p. 173
- Thomson Alex A inspr PLIB2155 West 1st, p. 610
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Thomsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Thomson 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.