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A family name on Barclay Street, West End

The Wrights

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Wright at three addresses in 1940, all on Barclay Street. 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 137 other streets too, all listed on the Wright name's own page.

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Where the Wrights 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

    1139 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Milford F Wright, a receiver at Vancouver Pacific Paper 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A McIntyre at 1137. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1248 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Robert Wright 1940

    Next door in 1940: W R Griffiths at 1246 and moxam (the) at 1260. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2020 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Nancy Wright, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: W H Fletcher at 2040. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a nurse and a receiver.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (3). 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 Milford F Wright at 1139 Barclay Street, a receiver at Vancouver Pacific Paper. The 1940 name section lists Robert Wright at 1248 Barclay Street. The 1940 name section lists Nancy Wright at 2020 Barclay Street, a nurse.

Today

1139 Barclay (1959) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1248 Barclay and 2020 Barclay, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

The Sutherland wedding party with their flowers at 1901 Barclay Street
9 September 1932 The Sutherland wedding party with their flowers at 1901 Barclay Street. Not at the house at 1139 Barclay: no archive photo of the 1100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4256. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Wrights

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Wright 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.