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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Vollanses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Vollans at two addresses in 1940 in South Cambie. 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 Vollanses 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

    3983 Laurel Street

    South Cambie, 1940

    • E H Vollans, a school teacher 1940
  2. 2

    562 West 23rd Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Herbert Vollans, retired 1940
    • Wilhelmina W Vollans, a hairdresser 1940

    Next door in 1940: J E Paxton at 566. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a hairdresser and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in South Cambie (2). 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 E H Vollans at 3983 Laurel Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Everett H Vollans there as the householder, a school teacher. The 1940 name section lists Herbert Vollans at 562 West 23rd Avenue, retired, with Wilhelmina W Vollans, a hairdresser.

Today

3983 Laurel and 562 West 23rd still have their buildings from before 1946.

Two men with tennis racquets on the step of the B.C. Electric Lawn Tennis Club at 41st Avenue and Laurel Street
About 1913 Two men with tennis racquets on the step of the B.C. Electric Lawn Tennis Club at 41st Avenue and Laurel Street. Not at the house at 3983 Laurel: no archive photo of the 3900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 935. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Vollanses

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 V. Want a name removed? Tell us.