Riley Park, Vancouver

5080 Quebec Street

In the 1940 city directory.

Dudley H Harris worked as an attendant at Shell Oil and headed the household at 5080 Quebec Street in 1940.

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1
person the 1940 directory lists here
Rebuilt in 1953
today, by the City's records

In 1940

The household

  • Dudley H Harrisan attendant at Shell Oil · householderp. 256

The 5000 block of Quebec Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line. The 2400, 2500, 2600 and 2700 blocks of Quebec Street are read from every directory, 1905 to 1955.

1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory

Streets

QUEBEC

  1. 5080Harris D Hp. 138

Names

  1. Harris Dudley H atdt Shell Oil h5080 Quebecp. 256
The lines for 5080 Quebec Street in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens its page at the Vancouver Public Library. The name section prints h for a householder and r for someone who lives at the address.

The house today

Goad's 1912 map draws no building on the lot at 5080, and the building the 1940 directory knew is gone too: the City dates the one there now to 1953; none of the six old addresses on the 5000 block of Quebec Street keeps a building from before 1946.

Since 1940

  1. 1953Today's building goes up, by the City's record.
  2. 2018–2019Licensed as an apartment house.

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 5000 block of Quebec Street on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, with 5080 marked
The 5000 block of Quebec Street, on the stretch it shares with the 4900 block, between East 33rd Avenue and James Street, on Goad's fire insurance map of 1912; the map may print the street under an older name. The ring marks 5080, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). In 1912 the map draws nothing on the spot where 5080 is today: an empty lot, a parcel not yet cut into lots, or land the survey left blank. Georectified by the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

The 5000 block in 1940

Quebec Street, on the stretch it shares with the 4900 block, between East 33rd Avenue and James Street, Riley Park: 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.

Quebec Street, the 5000 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)

East side, even numbers

  1. 5080Harris D Hrebuilt

The 5000 block of Quebec Street

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5080 Quebec Street, Riley Park, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The building there today dates from 1953, by the City's record.

Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/5080-quebec, 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.