Vancouver / Keefer Street / Strathcona

Strathcona, Vancouver

239 Keefer Street

In the 1940 city directory.

Yen Ming Lum, who ran a garage, is the one line the 1940 street section prints at 239 Keefer Street, and no line in the name section matches it.

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1
person the 1940 directory lists here
Still standing
today, by the City's records
1935
the year built, by the City's record

In 1940

The street section

The 200 block of Keefer Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line. The 500, 600 and 700 blocks of Keefer Street are read from every directory, 1905 to 1955.

1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory

Streets

KEEFER

  1. 239Yen Ming Lum garp. 93
The lines for 239 Keefer Street in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The house today

239 Keefer Street still has a building from before 1946, as does 240 across the street; the City's assessment record gives 1935 as its year built.

Since 1940

  1. 1950A major renovation, by BC Assessment's record.
  2. 1998–2000Licensed as a food shop.
  3. 2000–2016Licensed as a grocery.
  4. 2020A building permit for a new building, valued at $12,200,000 (BP-2018-04015).
  5. 2020A building permit for demolition, valued at $85,735 (BP-2018-04384).

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 200 block of Keefer Street on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, with 239 marked
The 200 block of Keefer Street, between Main Street and Gore Avenue, on Goad's fire insurance map of 1912; the map may print the street under an older name. The ring marks 239, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). Georectified by the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

The 200 block in 1940

Keefer Street between Main Street and Gore Avenue, Strathcona: 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.

Keefer Street, the 200 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)

The 200 block of Keefer Street

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239 Keefer Street, Strathcona, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. A building from before 1946 still stands there: the City's record gives 1935 as the year built.

Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/239-keefer, 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. Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.