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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Woolstons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Woolston at four addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Woolstone. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Woolstons 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

    1619 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Wollaston (no first name printed) 1940

    Next door in 1940: G F Crooks at 1601 and H G Haddow at 1627. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    657 East 15th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • R Woolston 1940

    Next door in 1940: J C Bradbury at 655 and W L McGregor at 661. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2932 Sophia Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • H C Woolston, of Arctic Refrigeration 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Fraser at 2934. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    603 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J L Woolstone, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: Post Fund Last at 601 and Pitman's Optical House at 605. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a music teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2), Downtown and West End. 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 Wollaston (no first name printed) at 1619 Barclay Street. R Woolston is listed at 657 East 15th Avenue in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists H C Woolston at 2932 Sophia Street. The 1940 name section lists Harold C Woolstone there as the householder, of Arctic Refrigeration.

In 1940 the directory lists J L Woolstone, a music teacher, at 603 West Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Jack L Woolstone there, a music teacher.

Today

657 East 15th and 2932 Sophia still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1619 Barclay and 603 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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

The book of the Woolstons

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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.