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A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole

The Wallaces

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Wallace at three addresses in 1940, all on Granville Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Wallaces at 4238 Granville in 1940. 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

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

    1155 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • James Wallace, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Bank of Montreal at 1149 and W Bailey at 1157. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1261 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Charles Wallace 1940
    • Robert Wallace 1940

    Next door in 1940: Wosk's Ltd at 1259 and Crescent Furn at 1267. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4238 Granville Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • S T Wallace, proprietor of Wallace Marketerias 1940
    • Dorothy M Wallace, a stenographer for Wallace Marketerias 1940
    • Irene E Wallace, a school teacher 1940
    • Jean D Wallace 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Sereth at 4212. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the seven: a proprietor, a school teacher and a stenographer. Two of them worked for Wallace Marketerias.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and Shaughnessy. 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 James Wallace at 1155 Granville Street, retired. The 1940 name section lists Charles Wallace at 1261 Granville Street, with Robert Wallace. In 1940 the directory lists S T Wallace at 4238 Granville Street; 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 Sam T Wallace there as the householder, proprietor of Wallace Marketerias, with Dorothy M Wallace, a stenographer for Wallace Marketerias, Irene E Wallace, a school teacher, and Jean D Wallace.

Today

1155 Granville, 1261 Granville and 4238 Granville still have their buildings from before 1946.

Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk
1917 Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk. Not at the house at 4238 Granville: no archive photo of the 4200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-350. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Wallaces

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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.