A family name on Burrard Street, Downtown, West End, Fairview and Kitsilano
The Wilkinsons
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Wilkinson at one address, 1320 Burrard Street in Downtown, in 1940. The directories print the name on 59 other streets too, all listed on the Wilkinson name's own page.
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The Wilkinsons at home
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1320 Burrard Street
Downtown, 1940
- T Wilkinson, a miner 1940
- Gladys V Wilkinson, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
- Irene Wilkinson, a packer at Dickson Importing 1940
- R Wilkinson, a laborer at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: J W Jaques at 1318 and J M Aird at 1326. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a laborer, a miner, a packer and a saleswoman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 T Wilkinson at 1320 Burrard Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas Wilkinson there as the householder, a miner, with T Dawson Wilkinson, Gladys V Wilkinson, a saleswoman at Woodward's, Irene Wilkinson, a packer at Dickson Importing, R Wilkinson, a laborer at the Vancouver General Hospital, and Robert Wilkinson.
Today
The City no longer lists 1320 Burrard, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wilkinson T1320 Burrard, p. 22
- Wilkinson Gladys V slswm Woodwards1320 Burrard, p. 660
- Wilkinson Irene pkr Dickson Imptg1320 Burrard, p. 660
- Wilkinson R lab Van Genl Hosp1320 Burrard, p. 660
- Wilkinson Robt1320 Burrard, p. 660
- Wilkinson T Dawson1320 Burrard, p. 660
- Wilkinson Thos miner1320 Burrard, p. 660
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Wilkinsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Wilkinson 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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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.