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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Towses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

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

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Where the Towses lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3756 West 18th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C W Towse, a grocer 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Ramsay at 3732 and Miss C Pedden at 3768. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3092 West Broadway

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C W Towse, a grocer 1940

    Next door in 1940: T H Howe at 3088 and D'A M Rae at 3096. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a grocer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and 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 C W Towse at 3756 West 18th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Cecil W Towse there as the householder, a grocer. In 1940 the directory lists C W Towse, a grocer, at 3092 West Broadway.

Today

3756 West 18th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1922 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3092 West Broadway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Towses

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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.