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A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Williamses

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at four addresses

The directories print seven people named Williams at four addresses in 1940, all on East 7th Avenue, with the close spelling Willams. 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 Williamses at 101 East 7th 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

    101 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Miss G I Williams 1940
    • Gretchen I Williams, a stenographer for Gordon Campbell 1940
    • Ernest Williams, a presser for Gordon Campbell 1940
    • Lewis A Williams, a manager at Williams Stationery 1940

    Next door in 1940: Salv Army at 125. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    154 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • N J Williams, a compositor at the Sun and proprietor of Williams Block 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M C McKenzie at 144. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    339 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mary A Williams, widow of F J 1940

    Next door in 1940: E N McIntyre at 337 and J T Pasjack at 349. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    772 East 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Ken Williams, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A M Currie at 766. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a compositor, a manager, a millworker, a presser and a stenographer. Two of them worked for Gordon Campbell. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (4). 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 Miss G I Williams at 101 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Gretchen I Williams there as the householder, a stenographer for Gordon Campbell, with Ernest Williams, a presser for Gordon Campbell, and Lewis A Williams, a manager at Williams Stationery. In 1940 the directory lists N J Williams at 154 East 7th Avenue; 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 Norman J Williams there as the householder, a compositor at the Sun and proprietor of Williams Block.

The 1940 name section lists Mary A Williams at 339 East 7th Avenue, widow of F J. The 1940 name section lists Ken Williams at 772 East 7th Avenue, a millworker at BC Plywoods.

Today

101 East 7th and 154 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946, 101 East 7th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 339 East 7th (1965) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 772 East 7th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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

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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.