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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Wheelhouses

In the city directories 1940 · eight people at five addresses

The directories print eight people named Wheelhouse at five 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. The most under one roof: three Wheelhouses at 2915 West 12th in 1940.

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Where the Wheelhouses 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

    1331 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Ron Wheelhouse, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: T E Sleeth at 1327 and Morgan T C Ltd at 1335. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2915 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Miss G H Wheelhouse 1940
    • Christina Wheelhouse 1940
    • Gertrude H Wheelhouse, a stenographer at Bird & McLorg 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Turner at 2905 and C A French at 2925. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2250 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W W Wheelhouse, proprietor of Royal Confectionery 1940

    Next door in 1940: howard block at 2248 and J Adam at 2252. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1140 West 7th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • J W Wheelhouse, a watchman at Canadian John Wood 1940
    • William Wheelhouse 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Protheroe at 1132 and J M Peters at 1148. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1147 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Frederick W Wheelhouse, a telegraph operator 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Montgomery at 1129 and Mrs H Wright at 1151. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the eight: a laborer, a proprietor, a stenographer, a telegraph operator and a watchman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Kitsilano (2) and Fairview. 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 Ron Wheelhouse at 1331 Granville Street, a laborer. Miss G H Wheelhouse is listed at 2915 West 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Christina Wheelhouse there, with Gertrude H Wheelhouse, a stenographer at Bird & McLorg.

W W Wheelhouse is listed at 2250 West 4th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Walter W Wheelhouse there as the householder, proprietor of Royal Confectionery. J W Wheelhouse is listed at 1140 West 7th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John W Wheelhouse there as the householder, a watchman at Canadian John Wood, with William Wheelhouse.

The 1940 name section lists Frederick W Wheelhouse at 1147 West Hastings Street, a telegraph operator.

Today

2915 West 12th and 1140 West 7th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1140 West 7th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1331 Granville, 2250 West 4th and 1147 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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 Wheelhouses

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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.