A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Youngs
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Young at three addresses in 1940, all on East 7th 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 Young name's own page.
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Where the Youngs lived
- 1
133 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- H B Young, a pressman at the Sun 1940
Next door in 1940: Salv Army at 125 and L F Lowe at 141. The block, door by door
- 2
611 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- W Young 1940
Next door in 1940: J T Thomson at 653. The block, door by door
- 3
825 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- J Young, a painter at the Devonshire Hotel 1940
- Thomas A Young 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss E M Taylor at 815 and Mrs I M Cater at 843. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a painter and a pressman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3). 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 H B Young at 133 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Henry B Young there as the householder, a pressman at the Sun. In 1940 the directory lists W Young at 611 East 7th Avenue.
J Young is listed at 825 East 7th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John Young there as the householder, retired, with John Young Jr, a painter at the Devonshire Hotel, and Thomas A Young.
Today
133 East 7th and 611 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946; 825 East 7th (1978) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Young H B133 East 7th, p. 189
- Young Henry B prsmn Sun133 East 7th, p. 680
- Young W611 East 7th, p. 190
- Young J825 East 7th, p. 190
- Young John retired825 East 7th, p. 680
- Young John Jr pntr Devonshire Hotel825 East 7th, p. 680
- Young Thos A825 East 7th, p. 680
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Youngs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Young 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 Y. Want a name removed? Tell us.