572 Beatty Street

In the 1940 city directory.

The 1940 directory lists six firms and three other lines at 572 Beatty Street; the firms' trades: wholesale electrician supplies, wholesale confectioner and lamps. The street section prints three names the name section doesn't list: G C Faulkner, W L McGillivray and C L Foster.

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3: people the 1940 directory lists here
Rebuilt in 2006: today, by the City's records

In 1940

The street section

nine linesBrade Storage and its suites and households, each on the page beside

Only in the street section

G C Faulknermanufacturers agentp. 11
W L McGillivraymanufacturers agentp. 11
C L Fostermanufacturers agentp. 11

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 572 Beatty Street in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The building today

A newer building, dated 2006 by the City, has the address now: the brick building Goad's 1912 map draws here is gone, replaced after the 1940 directory; the nearest that still stands is 560, on the heritage register, four doors along on the same side, one of three left on the block. A permit to build a 7-storey brick building at 572, 574 and 576 Beatty was taken out in September 1909 by Robertson-Godson Company: builder Albert Adams, architect Parr & Fee, $35,000.

Since 1940

2006Today's building goes up, by the City's record.

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 572 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 572, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). The 1912 map draws one brick building on the lot at 572, 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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572 Beatty Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The building there today dates from 2006, by the City's record.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/572-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. Building permit: Heritage Vancouver Society's transcription of the City's permit registers, 1901–1930 (Historical Vancouver Building Permits; search it for this address). Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.