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A family name on East 5th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Wilsons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Wilson at two addresses in 1940, all on East 5th Avenue, with the close spelling Willson. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

    1956 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R Wilson, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: F V Cox at 1950 and G E D Tuck at 1962. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3195 East 5th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • W J Wilson, a trimmer at Begg Motor 1940
    • Harry Wilson, a metal worker at Auto House 1940

    Next door in 1940: W McD Paul at 3189. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a fisherman, a metal worker and a trimmer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 R Wilson at 1956 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Richard Wilson there as the householder, a fisherman. In 1940 the directory lists W J Wilson at 3195 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists William J Wilson there as the householder, a trimmer at Begg Motor, with Harry Wilson, a metal worker at Auto House.

Today

1956 East 5th (1996) and 3195 East 5th (1969) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Wilsons

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.