A family name on Powell Street, Strathcona, Downtown and Grandview-Woodland
The Wrights
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Wright at two addresses in 1940, all on Powell Street. 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 137 other streets too, all listed on the Wright name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
Where the Wrights lived
- 1
252 Powell Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Charles Wright, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: Bunka Shokai at 250 and Mrs F Usami at 254. The block, door by door
- 2
1901 Powell Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Janet C Wright, a housekeeper at the Princeton Hotel 1940
- John C Wright, proprietor of the Princeton Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: C Ito at 1911. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a housekeeper, a longshoreman and a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 Charles Wright at 252 Powell Street, a longshoreman. The 1940 name section lists Janet C Wright at 1901 Powell Street, a housekeeper at the Princeton Hotel, with John C Wright, proprietor of the Princeton Hotel.
Today
1901 Powell still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 252 Powell, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wright Chas lngshmn252 Powell, p. 675
- Wright Janet C hsekpr Princeton Hotel1901 Powell, p. 676
- Wright John C prop Princeton Hotel1901 Powell, p. 676
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.