A family name on East 10th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Wrights
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Wright at two addresses in 1940, all on East 10th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Wrights at 466 East 10th in 1940. 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
- 1
466 East 10th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- J E Wright, a building contractor 1940
- Don B Wright, an utility inspector at the City of Vancouver 1940
- Viola A Wright, a branch manager at Woman's Bakery 1940
Next door in 1940: A Chahley at 460 and Mrs M McDonald at 470. The block, door by door
- 2
662 East 10th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Doris E Wright 1940
Next door in 1940: G O Elder at 658. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a branch manager, a building contractor and an utility inspector.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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 J E Wright at 466 East 10th 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 James E Wright there as the householder, a building contractor, with Don B Wright, an utility inspector at the City of Vancouver, and Viola A Wright, a branch manager at Woman's Bakery. The 1940 name section lists Doris E Wright at 662 East 10th Avenue.
Today
466 East 10th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 662 East 10th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Wright J E466 East 10th, p. 198
- Wright Don B utility inspr Van City466 East 10th, p. 675
- Wright Jas E bldg contr466 East 10th, p. 676
- Wright Viola A br mgr Woman's Bky466 East 10th, p. 676
- Wright Doris E662 East 10th, p. 675
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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Another name, or a house
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.