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Downtown, Vancouver

150 Alexander Street

In the 1940 city directory.

In 1940, 150 Alexander Street is Ezzy Candy Co Ltd, with six suites and households listed under it. The street section prints one name the name section doesn't list: F Gifford. Its name section lists one more person here under another surname too.

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2
people the 1940 directory lists here, one of them named in the book
Rebuilt in 1982
on the Heritage Register, category C

In 1940

The street section

  • Ezzy Candy Co Ltdp. 4
  • Ezzy Candy Co Ltdp. 4
  • General Towing & Lighteragesuite 301p. 4
  • Lewis Tug Boatsuite 301p. 4
  • Independent Towing Cosuite 301p. 4
  • Star Towing Cosuite 301p. 4
  • F Giffordsuite 307p. 4
  • Cresta Blancabottlers · suite 308p. 4

Also at this address

  • One more personunder another surname, with their work: in the book

Alexander Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.

1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory

Streets

ALEXANDER

  1. 150Ezzy Candy Co Ltdp. 4
  2. 150Ezzy Candy Co Ltdp. 4
  3. 150301Genl Towing & Lighteragep. 4
  4. 150301Lewis Tug Boatp. 4
  5. 150301Independent Towing Cop. 4
  6. 150301Star Towing Cop. 4
  7. 150307Gifford Fp. 4
  8. 150308Cresta Blanca bottlersp. 4
The lines for 150 Alexander Street in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The building today

The building the 1940 directory knew is gone: the City dates the building at 150 now to 1982; across the street, 157, on the heritage register, still has one from before 1946, one of two on the block. A permit to build apartment/rooms at 148, 150 and 152 Alexander was taken out in May 1912 by Brown & Howey: builder Egdell & Dixon, architect Braunton & Leibert, $50,000.

Since 1940

  1. 1982A major renovation, by BC Assessment's record.
  2. 1982Today's building goes up, by the City's record.
  3. 2019A building permit for alterations, valued at $1,065,000 (DB-2019-00457).

From City of Vancouver open data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver): the property tax report (BC Assessment's years, approximate for old buildings), business licences from 1997 (the kind of business only), issued building permits from 2017 and the heritage register.

The 100 block of Alexander Street on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, with 150 marked
The 100 block of Alexander Street, on the stretch it shares with the 200 and 300 blocks, between Columbia Street and Dunlevy Avenue, on Goad's fire insurance map of 1912; the map may print the street under an older name. The ring marks 150, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). Georectified by the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

The 100 block in 1940

Alexander Street, on the stretch it shares with the 200 and 300 blocks, between Columbia Street and Dunlevy Avenue, Downtown: 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.

Alexander Street, the 100 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)

Alexander Street, block by block

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150 Alexander Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The building there today dates from 1982, by the City's record.

Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/150-alexander, 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. The 1912 plate: Goad's Fire Insurance Map, georectified by the City of Vancouver. Building permit: Heritage Vancouver Society's transcription of the City's permit registers, 1901–1930 (Historical Vancouver Building Permits; search it for this address). Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.