In 1940, 2307 East Hastings Street is Nelly's Dress Shop.
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- Address gone
- today, by the City's records
In 1940
The street section
- Nelly's Dress Shopp. 75
East Hastings Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.
The building today
The City's list of addresses no longer has 2307 East Hastings Street, so the building is probably gone (inferred); two doors along, 2303 still has one from before 1946, one of seven on the block.
The 2300 block in 1940
East Hastings Street between Garden Drive and Nanaimo Street, 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.
East Hastings Street, the 2300 blockas the 1940 directory lists it, door by door, and what stands there today
North side, odd numbers
- 2303East End Prntrs & Publrs +1stands
- 2305Nanaimo Ctgegone
- 2307Nelly's Dress Shopgone
- 2327Whiting H Wstands
- 2331Olympia Fish & Chipsgone
- 2341Women's Bky +1stands
- 2347Hastings Furngone
- 2355Jordan's Dairygone
- 2359Laird J +1stands
- 2365Hastings Barber Shopgone
- 2369The Fran Beauty Shoppegone
- 2381Olympia Thearebuilt
- 2383Olympia Candy Storegone
- 2385Royal Bankgone
- 2387Foster Dr E Jgone
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2307 East Hastings Street, Grandview-Woodland, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The City no longer lists the address.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/2307-east-hastings, 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.