A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Wallaces
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Wallace at three addresses in 1940, all on East 7th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 88 other streets too, all listed on the Wallace name's own page.
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Where the Wallaces lived
- 1
101 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs A G Wallace, widow of J 1940
- Roy G Wallace, a manager at the Wallace Electric 1940
Next door in 1940: Salv Army at 125. The block, door by door
- 2
611 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- L G Wallace 1940
Next door in 1940: J T Thomson at 653. The block, door by door
- 3
3387 East 7th Avenue
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- Thomas W Wallace, a serviceman at BC Motor Transportation 1940
Next door in 1940: J McDonald at 3375. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a manager and a serviceman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Mrs A G Wallace at 101 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alice G Wallace there as the householder, widow of J, with Roy G Wallace, a manager at the Wallace Electric. In 1940 the directory lists L G Wallace at 611 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Thomas W Wallace at 3387 East 7th Avenue, a serviceman at BC Motor Transportation.
Today
101 East 7th and 611 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946, 101 East 7th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 3387 East 7th, 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.
- Wallace Mrs A G101 East 7th, p. 189
- Wallace Alice G wid J101 East 7th, p. 638
- Wallace Roy G mgr Wallace Elec101 East 7th, p. 639
- Wallace L G611 East 7th, p. 190
- Wallace Thos W servmn BC Motor Trans3387 East 7th, p. 639
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Wallaces
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Wallace 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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.