In 1940, 2405 East Hastings Street is Bloomfield Block, with one suite listed under it. The street section prints one name the name section doesn't list: E J Hill.
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- person the 1940 directory lists here
- Address gone
- today, by the City's records
In 1940
East Hastings Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.
1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory
Streets
EAST HASTINGS
The building today
The City's list of addresses no longer has 2405 East Hastings Street, so the building is probably gone (inferred); directly across the street, 2404 still has one from before 1946, one of 13 on the block.
The 2400 block in 1940
East Hastings Street between Nanaimo and Kamloops Streets, Hastings-Sunrise: 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 2400 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)
North side, odd numbers
- 2401Sunnyside Fruit Mktgone
- 2405Bloomfield Block +1gone
- 2407Dorothy Shoppegone
- 2411Rotary Bkygone
- 2415Dunn F +1stands
- 2417Gresham Circulating Librarygone
- 2425Doreen Confstands
- 2427Bob's Quality Mkt +1gone
- 2431Safeway Storesstands
- 2439Olympia Shoe Storestands
- 2441Purity Meat Mktgone
- 2443Bragg'sstands
- 2447Lakewood Fish & Chips +2gone
- 2449Dress & Lingerie Style Shopgone
- 2463Brown's Easy-Way Grostands
- 2465Blue Star Dairygone
- 2469Hastings Gro and Conf +1stands
- 2471Highland Fruit Marketgone
- 2477Hastings News +1stands
- 2485Superior Storesgone
- 2493Cox Family Shoe Storegone
- 2497National Farms Dairy +1gone
South side, even numbers
- 2404Cunningham Drugstands
- 2406Oben G Jgone
- 2408Central Prodgone
- 2454*Swain's Old Country Bakerystands
- 2458Forst's (stge)gone
- 2466Tip Top Toggerystands
- 2468Tip Top Barber Shopgone
- 2474Nanaimo Recreations +1stands
- 2476Rex Shoe Repairs +1gone
- 2478Boyd J Agone
- 2482Clover Leaf New Laid Egg Shopgone
- 2486Hastings Fish Mktgone
- 2492Bill's Meat Mktstands
- 2496Kamloops Prodgone
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2405 East Hastings Street, Hastings-Sunrise, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The City no longer lists the address.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/2405-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.