550 Beatty Street

In the 1940 city directory.

In 1940, 550 Beatty Street is Vancouver Warehouse, with 24 suites and households listed under it. Its name section lists one person here: Frederick Oliver, a manufacturers agent. The street section prints eleven more names the name section doesn't list: H P A Burton, Link-Belt and nine others. Its name section lists one more person here under another surname too.

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13: people the 1940 directory lists here, one of them named in the book
Rebuilt in 1983: today, by the City's records

In 1940

The street section

25 linesVancouver Warehouse and its suites and households, each on the page beside

The household

Frederick Olivera manufacturers agent · lives herep. 470

Only in the street section

H P A Burtonsuite 2p. 11
Link-Beltchain manufacturers · suite 6p. 11
Colombian Consulatesuite 8p. 11
J D Ormsbymanufacturers agentp. 11
W S Comermanufacturers agentp. 11
McKenzie Stephensonp. 11
S Rowlandmanufacturers agentp. 11
W H Whittymanufacturers agentp. 11
F J Bossonsmanufacturers agentp. 11
G K MacPhersonmanufacturers agentp. 11
W P Grossbuilding cleanerp. 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.

The lines for 550 Beatty 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 building today

A newer building, dated 1983 by the City, has the address now: the brick building Goad's 1912 map draws here is gone, replaced after the 1940 directory; two doors along, 560, on the heritage register, still has one from before 1946, one of three on the block.

Since 1940

1983A major renovation, by BC Assessment's record.
1983Today's building goes up, by the City's record.
1995A major renovation, by BC Assessment's record.
1997–2024Licensed as a community association (licences on record start in 1997).
2014–2019Licensed as an apartment house.
2018A building permit for alterations, valued at $140,000 (BP-2018-05045).
2019A building permit for alterations, valued at $105,000 (BP-2019-04605).
2021A building permit for alterations, valued at $118,938 (BP-2021-02577).

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 500 block of Beatty Street on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, with 550 marked — The 500 block of Beatty Street, on the stretch it shares with the 600 block, between West Pender and West Georgia Streets, on Goad's fire insurance map of 1912; the map may print the street under an older name. The ring marks 550, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). The 1912 map draws one brick building on the lot at 550, filling it. Georectified by the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

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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550 Beatty Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The building there today dates from 1983, by the City's record.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/550-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. 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.