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A family name on Comox Street, West End

The Wilsons

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at eight addresses

The directories print nine people named Wilson at eight addresses in 1940, all on Comox Street, with the close spelling Willson. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 224 other streets too, all listed on the Wilson name's own page.

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Where the Wilsons 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

    1055 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Walter H Wilson, proprietor of Wilson Realty Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: D D MacLeod at 1051 and A R Shirley at 1057. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1056 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Joyce Wilson, a nurse at the St Paul's Hospital 1940
    • June Wilson, a nurse at the St Paul's Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: G P Campbell at 1070. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1070 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Jean P Wilson, a nurse for Dr H Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: Hospital Nurses' Home St Paul's at 1056 and P Deane at 1096. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1120 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Frederick Wilson, a foreman at the Vancouver Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Graham at 1114 and A G Carrell at 1122. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1129 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Pauline Wilson 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Carley at 1127 and Mrs K Reed at 1133. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    1154 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • William J Wilson, an attendant at Boultbee 1940

    Next door in 1940: J B Kay at 1150 and Mrs M E Moore at 1160. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    1159 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • R H Merton Wilson, an accountant at F G Ward Music 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D M Holt at 1155 and Mrs C A Murray at 1161. The block, door by door

  8. 8

    1301 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Raye Wilson 1940

    Next door in 1940: sheffield (the) at 1325. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for seven of the nine: a nurse (3), an accountant, an attendant, a foreman and a proprietor. Two of them worked for St Paul's Hospital.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (8). 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 Walter H Wilson at 1055 Comox Street, proprietor of Wilson Realty Co. The 1940 name section lists Joyce Wilson at 1056 Comox Street, a nurse at the St Paul's Hospital, with June Wilson, a nurse at the St Paul's Hospital. The 1940 name section lists Jean P Wilson at 1070 Comox Street, a nurse for Dr H Brown. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Wilson at 1120 Comox Street, a foreman at the Vancouver Hotel.

The 1940 name section lists Mrs Pauline Wilson at 1129 Comox Street. The 1940 name section lists William J Wilson at 1154 Comox Street, an attendant at Boultbee. The 1940 name section lists R H Merton Wilson at 1159 Comox Street, an accountant at F G Ward Music. The 1940 name section lists Raye Wilson at 1301 Comox Street.

Today

1120 Comox and 1154 Comox still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1055 Comox, 1056 Comox, 1070 Comox, 1129 Comox, 1159 Comox and 1301 Comox, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees
1925 Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees. Not at the house at 1056 Comox: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 9 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

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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.