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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Timberlakes

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Timberlake at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Timberlakes 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

    1601 Robson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Rose Timberlake 1940

    Next door in 1940: R W Crawford at 1615. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1654 West 10th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss D Timberlake 1940
    • Dorothy Timberlake, a bookkeeper at Ingledew's 1940

    Next door in 1940: fernhurst apts at 1646 and T Deas at 1656. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3534 West 37th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • M Timberlake, a school principal 1940

    Next door in 1940: C W Pipes at 3526 and E S Sims at 3548. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a bookkeeper and a school principal.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Fairview and West End. 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 Rose Timberlake at 1601 Robson Street. Miss D Timberlake is listed at 1654 West 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Dorothy Timberlake there as the householder, a bookkeeper at Ingledew's.

M Timberlake is listed at 3534 West 37th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Morley Timberlake there as the householder, a school principal.

Today

3534 West 37th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; 1654 West 10th (2000) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1601 Robson, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Timberlakes

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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.