Vancouver / Fairview

Vancouver

Fairview

2,910 addresses on 29 streets, in the 1940 city directory

Fairview has been rebuilt: one in ten of its addresses keeps a building from before 1946, where the site's other streets keep one in three. Fairview rented: only one in five of its households carries the directory's mark for a family member owning the house in 1940, where the site's other streets have half.

Who lived at each house is read on every street in 1940.

At work in 1940

The work the 1940 name section prints for the people it lists here, the most common first. Open one for some of the people who did it, each with their house.

  1. Clerk355

    And 350 more, each on their own house's page.

  2. Salesman328

    And 323 more, each on their own house's page.

  3. Stenographer309

    And 304 more, each on their own house's page.

  4. Nurse267

    And 262 more, each on their own house's page.

  5. Proprietor245

    And 240 more, each on their own house's page.

  6. Teacher186

    And 181 more, each on their own house's page.

  7. Saleswoman141

    And 136 more, each on their own house's page.

  8. Laborer135

    And 130 more, each on their own house's page.

  9. Millworker116

    And 111 more, each on their own house's page.

  10. Manager111

    And 106 more, each on their own house's page.

  11. Helper91

    And 86 more, each on their own house's page.

  12. Carpenter90

    And 85 more, each on their own house's page.

  13. Social workernine times as common as on the rest of the site's streets18

    And 13 more, each on their own house's page.

  14. Ward assistantsix times as common as on the rest of the site's streets15

    And 13 more, each on their own house's page.

  15. Instructorfive times as common as on the rest of the site's streets8

    And 3 more, each on their own house's page.

60 people listed here in 1940 were on active service, in the forces.

Who they worked for

  • Vancouver General Hospital311
  • Vancouver City212
  • BC Electric Railway88
  • BC Telephone65
  • UBC58
  • Spencer's53
  • CPR52
  • BC Government48

At home

960 of the 4,275 households the 1940 street section lists here carry its * (the directory's mark for a family member owning the house), against half on the rest of the site's streets. *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935).

Half of the people its name section lists here are householders (h); the rest live in someone else's house (r), as family, boarders or roomers. On the rest of the site's streets, half are householders.

Still standing

294 of the addresses here still have a building from before 1946; 490 were rebuilt later, and 2,126 are gone from the City's list. The oldest still up:

Years built are the City's assessment records, approximate for old buildings.

In the archives

Archive photos of its streets, then three of its blocks on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, where the most still stands.

Cecily R. Hunt, a small child in a bonnet, on the porch of a house at 7th Avenue and Birch Street
About 1913 Cecily R. Hunt, a small child in a bonnet, on the porch of a house at 7th Avenue and Birch Street. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 82-14. Public domain.
Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments
21 May 1929 Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 453-1. Public domain.
Goad's 1912 fire insurance map of the 2700 block of Granville Street
The 2700 block of Granville Street on Goad's fire insurance map, 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives, open data).
Goad's 1912 fire insurance map of the 2800 block of Granville Street
The 2800 block of Granville Street on Goad's fire insurance map, 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives, open data).
Goad's 1912 fire insurance map of the 2600 block of Hemlock Street
The 2600 block of Hemlock Street on Goad's fire insurance map, 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives, open data).

The streets

The 29 streets in Fairview on the site, A to Z.

  1. Alder Street27 addresses
    1940
  2. Ash Streetthe 2300–2400 and 2600–2800 blocks: 7 addresses, one still standing
    1940
  3. Birch Streetthe 2200–2500 and 2700–2900 blocks: 16 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  4. Burrard Streetthe 1700 and 1900–2100 blocks: 19 addresses, one still standing
    1940
  5. Fir Street17 addresses, one still standing
    1940
  6. Granville Streetthe 1900–3100 blocks: 280 addresses, 49 still standing
    1940
  7. Heather Streetthe 2200–3100 blocks: 39 addresses, seven still standing
    1940
  8. Hemlock Street48 addresses, 13 still standing
    1940
  9. Laurel Streetthe 2300–2500, 2700–2800 and 3000–3100 blocks: 15 addresses, five still standing
    1940
  10. Oak Streetthe 2200–3100 blocks: 32 addresses, seven still standing
    1940
  11. Pine Street43 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  12. Spruce Street11 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  13. West 10th Avenuethe 500–1700 blocks: 172 addresses, 16 still standing
    1940
  14. West 11th Avenuethe 1000–1700 blocks: 150 addresses, 22 still standing
    1940
  15. West 12th Avenuethe 500–600 and 800–1700 blocks: 198 addresses, 13 still standing
    1940
  16. West 13th Avenuethe 500–1700 blocks: 214 addresses, 14 still standing
    1940
  17. West 14th Avenuethe 500–1700 blocks: 189 addresses, 24 still standing
    1940
  18. West 15th Avenuethe 700–1500 and 1700 blocks: 123 addresses, 40 still standing
    1940
  19. West 16th Avenuethe 600, 800–900, 1100, 1500 and 1700 blocks: 79 addresses, 15 still standing
    1940
  20. West 1st Avenuethe 1600–1700 blocks: 18 addresses
    1940
  21. West 2nd Avenuethe 1500–1700 blocks: 56 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  22. West 3rd Avenuethe 1500–1700 blocks: 70 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  23. West 4th Avenuethe 1500–1700 blocks: 89 addresses, five still standing
    1940
  24. West 5th Avenuethe 1400–1700 blocks: 89 addresses, one still standing
    1940
  25. West 6th Avenuethe 500–1700 blocks: 137 addresses, five still standing
    1940
  26. West 7th Avenuethe 500–1700 blocks: 255 addresses, 17 still standing
    1940
  27. West 8th Avenuethe 500–1700 blocks: 222 addresses, eleven still standing
    1940
  28. West Broadwaythe 500–1700 blocks: 279 addresses, 17 still standing
    1940
  29. Willow Streetthe 2200–2300, 2600 and 2800–3100 blocks: 16 addresses
    1940

What the directory left out

The 1940 directory printed “Orientals” at 19 doors in Fairview instead of the residents' names. Its canvassers often didn't take down Chinese, Japanese and other residents' names, so the people at those doors can't be named or counted from it. Each door is on its street's page, as printed.

Next door

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