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A family name on West 5th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Wrights

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Wright at three addresses in 1940, all on West 5th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Wrights at 4414 West 5th 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

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

    2476 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • G A Wright 1940

    Next door in 1940: C W Erlebach at 2466 and C F Van der Ree at 2486. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4414 West 5th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • T T Wright, retired 1940
    • Monte Wright 1940
    • Sophie H Wright, a secretary for C B Stahlschmidt 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss J L Shaw at 4406 and H W Gilpin at 4420. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4485 West 5th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J Wright, a school teacher 1940
    • Arthur B Wright, a school teacher 1940
    • Ellen G B Wright, a stenographer for Ceperley Rounsefell 1940

    Next door in 1940: M E Crowell at 4479 and A J Hall at 4491. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: a school teacher (2), a secretary and a stenographer. Two of them worked for Vancouver City.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West Point Grey (2) and Kitsilano. 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 G A Wright at 2476 West 5th 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). T T Wright is listed at 4414 West 5th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas T Wright there as the householder, retired, with Monte Wright, and Sophie H Wright, a secretary for C B Stahlschmidt.

J Wright is listed at 4485 West 5th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John Wright there as the householder, proprietor of Medical Arts Cigar Stand, with John B Wright, a school teacher, Arthur B Wright, a school teacher, and Ellen G B Wright, a stenographer for Ceperley Rounsefell.

Today

2476 West 5th and 4485 West 5th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 4414 West 5th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.