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A family name on East Broadway, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Hastings-Sunrise

The Wilsons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Wilson at four addresses in 1940, all on East Broadway, 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

    717 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • E Wilson, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Etherington at 709 and 4 listings at 719. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    719 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • F Wilson, a mechanic 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Wilson at 717 and Miss F Marriott at 721. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    742 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • T O Wilson, a manager at Community Cleaners & Dyers 1940

    Next door in 1940: R N Telford at 738 and Lending Lib Stinson at 748. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1462 East Broadway

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • T Wilson, a machinist at the Heatley Machinery Works 1940
    • H Wilson, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Young at 1460 and E Baker at 1464. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a confectioner, a driver, a machinist, a manager and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3) and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 E Wilson, a confectioner, at 717 East Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edward Wilson there, a confectioner. In 1940 the directory lists F Wilson at 719 East Broadway. The 1940 name section lists Frank Wilson there as the householder, a mechanic.

In 1940 the directory lists T O Wilson at 742 East Broadway. The 1940 name section lists Thomas O Wilson there as the householder, a manager at Community Cleaners & Dyers.

In 1940 the directory lists H Wilson at 1462 East Broadway. By 1940 it is T Wilson. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Wilson there as the householder, a machinist at the Heatley Machinery Works, with Harry Wilson, a driver.

Today

717 East Broadway, 742 East Broadway and 1462 East Broadway still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 719 East Broadway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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.