Using Voter Lists

I have usually regretted that ancestry.com includes these with censuses. Voters lists just give a year, name, address, and occupation. Compared with a census record this is pretty limited. But occasionally it is enough. A huge advantage of voters lists is that they are available for the time period after 1926, when no census records are currently available for Canada.

[In the example below, to protect privacy. I will use * to represent the maiden surname, ** to represent the first married name and *** to represent the second married name.]

Searching through the voters lists for North Vancouver
2153 Bellevue Ave
1945 Evelyn *  teacher

For Burnaby
4087 Charles Street
1953 Thomas ** truck driver 
Mrs Evelyn **
1957 Thomas **  labourer
Mrs Evelyn ** factory worker

3950 Eton Street
1962 Evelyn **  coil winder
1963 Evelyn **  coil winder
1965 Evelyn ***  coil winder
1968 Raymond ***  truck driver
Evelyn ***
Wayne **  labourer
Norma **  assembler

So what do I learn from the voters list that I did not know before?

1. I am able to confirm that she had been a school teacher. I was able to find that she was a factory worker, probably in a factory that produced electrical equipment, since they employ coil winders.
2. By 1953 she was married to her first husband, Thomas, who was a truck driver and a labourer.
3. About 1964 she married Raymond, her second husband, who was a truck driver,
4, Her children Wayne and Norma were age 21 by 1968 but her son Brian apparently was not, since his name is missing from the voters list.
5. From the ages of Wayne and Norma, I can estimate the she married Thomas, in about 1945.
6. I know her street addresses, in case these become useful later.

HINT:
If you know the voting district, use it as one of the search criteria to filter out people with the same name. It will save you a lot of time and work, for common names.