Two households are named, Hall (no first name printed) in 1940 and W P Grey in 1945.
Reserve this house's book, freeIts history in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. Read for this address so far: 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945. The book reads the other 14 directories we hold. About $29 when orders open. The City Archives charges $25 a year searched, a house historian $300 to $550 or more.
Who lived here
Read every ten years. Each chapter is one surname at this address across the directories, so it can be more than one family; tap a name for its directory page, or follow the name to every address it's printed at. After 1945 the directories' names aren't shown.
- Not in the directory1905–1935
- I1940
- II1945
- IIIA householdnames after 1945 withheld1955
A ribbon marks the chapters the book adds to: everyone the directory's name section lists at this address that year, with their work, and the page behind every line. See what it holds, or quote this house.
- 1909
- permit to build six frame houses, this among them
- 2
- households named, 1940–1945
- Address gone
- today, by the City's records
The address
A permit to build six frame houses (the register's number: “2305-2311-2321-2327-2335 or 2339-2343”), this one among them, was taken out in June 1909 by J E Braithwaite, owner and builder: $7,800 for the six.
Also at this address in 1940, the name section lists Hall (no first name printed), widow of E; and Mary E Hall, a stenographer at C Gardner Johnson (page 247, page 248). They share the household's surname, but no first name or initial ties them to the listing here before or after: we can't tell if they are the same family, so we keep them apart.
Today
The 1955 directory, the last we read still lists a household there, and the City's list of addresses no longer has 2305 Yew Street, so the building is probably gone (inferred). Next door, 2311 still has its building from before 1946, one of four on the block.
The neighbours
The 2300 block of Yew Street, door by door, the way the directory prints it. This house is marked in red; pick a year to read who lived at every door.
Yew Street, the 2300 blockas the 1905 directory lists it, door by dooras the 1915 directory lists it, door by dooras the 1925 directory lists it, door by dooras the 1935 directory lists it, door by dooras the 1940 directory lists it, door by dooras the 1945 directory lists it, door by dooras the 1955 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)
The 1905 directory lists no one on this block.
West side, odd numbers
- 2305Hall Mrs —Grey W Pa householdgone
- 2311Armitage GeoSteeves G*Lawrence C HLayton A J*Layton A J*a household · photographerstands
- 2321Fitzgerald ClarenceHaywood WProctor C R*Bileski C J*Bileski C Ja household +1stands
- 2327Bourne Robt HWright N KSmedley JMills MHarbour E Ca householdrebuilt
- 2339Braham Wm JWitcherley M AScott Rvacant*Manning D J*a householdstands
- 2343Deane ThosDe La Giroday MDavis Mrs MMcEwan F HMcEwan F H*a householdstands
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The record
Each directory's listing for this address, as printed, with its page at the Vancouver Public Library. *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935).
No Yew Street in this directory: Kitsilano not yet settled.
Not in the directory this year.
Not in the directory this year.
Not in the directory this year.
No job on this line: the 1940 directory prints work in its name section, under Hall (near p. 248).
The dash (—) is printed in the directory where a first name would go: it gives none.
No job on this line: the 1945 directory prints work in its name section, under Grey (near p. 253).
- a household
One listing. Names of residents after 1945 aren't shown; businesses and buildings are.
Quote this house
One line with its source, for a listing, a talk or a family tree. A link to this page shows the card below wherever it's shared.
2305 Yew Street, Kitsilano, Vancouver, is in the city directories from 1940 to 1955. The City no longer lists the address.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/2305-yew, from Vancouver's city directories (Vancouver Public Library) and City of Vancouver open data.
The history of
Kitsilano, 1940–1955
The book of 2305 Yew Street
What the book adds to this page
This page, free
- Who the street section lists here, 1940–1945
- The neighbours door by door, one year at a time
- An archive photo of Yew Street
- The building today, and each year's page at the library
The book adds
- Each resident's work and employer, line by line from the directories' name section, and two people it lists here that the street section leaves out
- Its two households as chapters, told in our words
- The 2300 block in all seven directories at once, every door
- The page behind every line, both sections, listed at the back
- One book, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give
Its contents
- The house
- Plate I, Yew Street in an archive photoabout 1910
- IHall, with everyone the name section lists1940
- Also at this address1940
- IIGrey, with everyone the name section lists1945
- After 19451955
- The 2300 block, decade by decade1905–1955
- The house today
- Sources, page by page
expected, a house
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See what one holds: 620 Keefer Street, 2649 Quebec Street or 2339 Yew Street, each a house's book.
Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, 1905–1955, street sections, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories); each year in the record 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. Building permit: Heritage Vancouver Society's transcription of the City's permit registers, 1901–1930 (Historical Vancouver Building Permits; search it for this address). Goad's 1912 fire insurance map doesn't print 2305 on Yew Street, so we haven't marked a lot for it: a wrong lot would be worse than none. The photo of Yew Street: City of Vancouver Archives, public domain, credited under it. Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.