Grandview-Woodland, Vancouver

1020 Semlin Drive

In the 1940 city directory.

The 1940 street section prints only a name at 1020 Semlin Drive, Franciscan Monastery, and no line in the name section matches it; its name section adds five more people here under other surnames.

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6
people the 1940 directory lists here, five of them named in the book
Address gone
today, by the City's records

In 1940

The street section

Also at this address

  • Five more peopleunder other surnames, with each one's work: in the book

Semlin Drive is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.

1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory

Streets

SEMLIN DRIVE

  1. 1020Franciscan Monasteryp. 149
The lines for 1020 Semlin Drive in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The house today

The City's list of addresses no longer has 1020 Semlin Drive, so the building is probably gone (inferred); directly across the street, 1021 still has one from before 1946, one of four on the block.

The 1000 block in 1940

Semlin Drive between Parker and Napier Streets, Grandview-Woodland: every door the 1940 directory lists on the block, the way it prints them, and what stands at each today. This house is marked in red.

Semlin Drive, the 1000 blockas the 1940 directory lists it, door by door, and what stands there today

*: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935)

East side, even numbers

  1. 1020Franciscan Monasterygone

The 1000 block of Semlin Drive

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1020 Semlin Drive, Grandview-Woodland, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The City no longer lists the address.

Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/1020-semlin-drive, from Vancouver's city directories (Vancouver Public Library) and City of Vancouver open data.

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Sources

The 1940 city directory (British Columbia and Yukon Directory), street and name sections, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories); each line above links its page. Today's buildings: City of Vancouver Open Data (property tax report 2026, property addresses, Vancouver Heritage Register; Open Government Licence – Vancouver). The City's year built is BC Assessment's figure and can be approximate for old houses. Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.