A family name on West Hastings Street, Downtown
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 West Hastings 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.
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Where the Wrights lived
- 1
1147 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Wright (no first name printed), a widow 1940
- Oliver Wright, a helper at the Lucas Electric 1940
Next door in 1940: M Montgomery at 1129 and Mrs H Wright at 1151. The block, door by door
- 2
1151 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs H Wright, rooms to let 1940
Next door in 1940: G Wengell at 1147 and P G H Rogers at 1173. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a helper. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Wright (no first name printed) at 1147 West Hastings Street, a widow, with Oliver Wright, a helper at the Lucas Electric. Mrs H Wright, rooms to let, is listed at 1151 West Hastings Street 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).
Today
The City no longer lists 1147 West Hastings and 1151 West Hastings, so those buildings are 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 — wid —1147 West Hastings, p. 675
- Wright Oliver hlpr Lucas Elec1147 West Hastings, p. 676
- *Wright Mrs H rooms1151 West Hastings, p. 81
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.