Vancouver / Quebec Street / Mount Pleasant

2637 Quebec Street

Live at 2637 Quebec Street today? Your building is the Frontenac, numbered 2649 in the old directories inferred

Below: the house that had this number before the renumbering.

A house first listed in the 1915 directory. A new name in every directory: four households between 1915 and 1945, none listed twice.

Read every ten years. A band is one household, joined across directories by surname; tap one for its directory page. After 1945 the directories' names aren't shown.

A full history of this house is coming: every resident's job, the whole block decade by decade, and a PDF with the page behind every line. One email when it's ready

by 1915
first listed in the directories
4
households named, 1915–1945
Not matched
today, by the City's records

The house

In 1915 the directory lists Scott B Anderson.

In 1925 the directory lists J A Carson.

In 1935 the directory lists B M Stephenson.

In 1945 the directory lists O Nelson.

Today

Today's 2637 Quebec Street is a different building: 2649 Quebec Street in the directories, renumbered later. Whether this house survives, we haven't found yet.

The neighbours

The 2600 block of Quebec Street. Your lot is outlined in red; pick a year to see who the directory lists on every lot.

The 2600 block of Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant. Lots are placed by house number.Scroll sideways on a small screen
Pre-1946 building still standsRebuilt after 1945Address gone todayNot matched*: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935)
0 of 21905→15
0 of 31915→25
1 of 51925→35
2 of 51935→45
Who stayed on the 2600 block: of the addresses with a named household in both directories, how many still had the same surname ten years on.

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).

1905

Not in the directory this year.

Henderson's City of Vancouver Directory

1955
  • vacant

One listing. Names of residents after 1945 aren't shown; businesses and buildings are.

Vancouver and New Westminster City Directory, p. 201

Coming: the full history of 2637 Quebec Street

Every line, both sections, every neighbour

  • Each resident's job and employer from the directory's name section
  • The block decade by decade, and who stayed
  • The 1912 map plate and what the street went through
  • A PDF with the page behind every line
$29

Not on sale yet.

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. Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.