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A family name on Cypress Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Williamses

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Williams at two addresses in 1940, all on Cypress Street, with the close spelling Willams. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Williamses at 3738 Cypress in 1940. The directories print the name on 186 other streets too, all listed on the Williams name's own page.

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Where the Williamses 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

    3738 Cypress Street

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • W E Williams, of Williams Manson & Rae 1940
    • Claire M Williams, a student 1940
    • Murray Williams 1940
    • Robert P Williams, a warehouseman at Vancouver Pacific Paper 1940
  2. 2

    5025 Cypress Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • Marion Williams, a cashier at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • William Williams, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1940

    Next door in 1940: A W Carfrae at 5041. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a cashier, a clerk and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge 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

In 1940 the directory lists W E Williams at 3738 Cypress 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, where each person's work is printed, lists William E Williams there as the householder, of Williams Manson & Rae, with W Enid Williams, a barrister at Williams Manson & Rae, Claire M Williams, a student, Murray Williams, and Robert P Williams, a warehouseman at Vancouver Pacific Paper. The 1940 name section lists Marion Williams at 5025 Cypress Street, a cashier at the BC Electric Railway, with William Williams, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce.

Today

3738 Cypress and 5025 Cypress still have their buildings from before 1946.

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, street section

The book of the Williamses

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.