500 Beatty Street

In the 1940 city directory.

In 1940, 500 Beatty Street is Sun Building, with 29 suites and households listed under it. The street section prints eight names the name section doesn't list: A G Stuart, Sun Directories and six others. Its name section lists one more person here under another surname too.

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9: people the 1940 directory lists here, one of them named in the book
*: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of the directory's knowledge, in 1940
Address gone: today, by the City's records

In 1940

The street section

30 linesSun Building and its suites and households, each on the page beside

Only in the street section

A G Stuartimporter · suite 400p. 10
Sun Directoriessuite 1004p. 10
H Kavanermanufacturers agent · suite 1100p. 10
J R Grantconsulting engineer · suite 1203p. 10
L F Pumphreyoils and lubricants · suite 1400p. 11
F Pumphreyimporter · suite 1400p. 11
D M McKenziemanufacturers agent · suite 1405p. 11
R F Millermanufacturers agent · suite 1503p. 11

Also at this address

One more personunder another surname, with their work: in the book

Beatty Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.

1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory

Streets

BEATTY

The lines for 500 Beatty Street in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens 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).

The building today

The City's list of addresses no longer has 500 Beatty Street, so the building is probably gone (inferred); two doors along, 518, on the heritage register, still has one from before 1946, one of three on the block.

The 500 block in 1940

Beatty Street, on the stretch it shares with the 600 block, between West Pender and West Georgia Streets, Downtown: 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.

Beatty Street, the 500 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

South side, even numbers

Beatty Street, block by block

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500 Beatty Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The City no longer lists the address.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/500-beatty, 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.