A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
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 East 8th Avenue. 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
- 1
156 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs Mary Wright 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs J Smythe at 154. The block, door by door
- 2
739 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- H R Wright, a driver at Olympic Pie Co 1940
Next door in 1940: S Spence at 731 and J Brinster at 747. The block, door by door
- 3
1645 East 8th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- G Wright, an engineer 1940
Next door in 1940: J Morrison at 1625 and W J Davis at 1655. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a driver and an engineer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 Mrs Mary Wright at 156 East 8th Avenue. H R Wright is listed at 739 East 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Horace R Wright there as the householder, a driver at Olympic Pie Co.
G Wright is listed at 1645 East 8th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists George Wright there as the householder, an engineer.
Today
156 East 8th 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 739 East 8th, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 1645 East 8th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wright Mrs Mary156 East 8th, p. 676
- Wright H R739 East 8th, p. 193
- Wright Horace R drvr Olympic Pie Co739 East 8th, p. 676
- *Wright G1645 East 8th, p. 194
- Wright Geo eng1645 East 8th, p. 675
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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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.