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A family name on West 27th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, South Cambie and Shaughnessy

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 West 27th 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3356 West 27th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • L Wilson, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs K Burns at 3344 and H T Brundrett at 3380. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3465 West 27th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Bessie Wilson 1940
    • Don Wilson, a delivery at Superior Stores 1940

    Next door in 1940: A C Hibberd at 3457 and R M Wyllie at 3475. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a delivery.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2). 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 L Wilson, a music teacher, at 3356 West 27th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Bessie Wilson at 3465 West 27th Avenue, with Don Wilson, a delivery at Superior Stores.

Today

3465 West 27th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record; 3356 West 27th (2007) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 3 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

The family book reads the Wilson name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.