A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Youngs
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Young 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 Young name's own page.
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Where the Youngs lived
- 1
110 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- H T Young, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: H W Mason at 106 and 6 listings at 124. The block, door by door
- 2
851 East 8th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- P F Young, an inspector at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: C B Thompson at 833 and Miss E Waler at 857. The block, door by door
- 3
2252 East 8th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- W W Young, a plumber 1940
Next door in 1940: J Bridges at 2248 and R J Mair at 2274. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: an inspector, a motorman and a plumber. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway.
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
In 1940 the directory lists H T Young at 110 East 8th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harry T Young there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway. In 1940 the directory lists P F Young at 851 East 8th 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). The 1940 name section lists Pius F Young there as the householder, an inspector at the BC Electric Railway.
In 1940 the directory lists W W Young at 2252 East 8th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William W Young there as the householder, a plumber.
Today
2252 East 8th (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 110 East 8th and 851 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Young H T110 East 8th, p. 193
- Young Harry T mtrmn BCER110 East 8th, p. 680
- *Young P F851 East 8th, p. 193
- Young Pius F inspr BCER851 East 8th, p. 680
- *Young W W2252 East 8th, p. 194
- Young Wm W plmbr2252 East 8th, p. 681
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Youngs
Every directory, as one book
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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 Y. Want a name removed? Tell us.