576 Seymour Street

In the 1940 city directory.

In 1940, 576 Seymour Street is Arts & Crafts Building, with 33 suites and households listed under it. Its name section lists one person here: Lydia M Lawrence, a dressmaker 315. The street section prints twelve more names the name section doesn't list: F Hinchliffe, A H Grant and ten others. Its name section lists one more person here under another surname too.

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14: people the 1940 directory lists here, one of them named in the book
Still standing: today, by the City's records
1930: the year built, by the City's record

In 1940

The street section

34 linesArts & Crafts Building and its suites and households, each on the page beside

The household

Lydia M Lawrencea dressmaker 315 · householderp. 340

Only in the street section

F Hinchliffewatchmaker · suite 210p. 150
A H Grantmanufacturers agent · suite 211p. 150
Multigrapherssuite 303p. 150
H Levygraphic art supplies · suite 305p. 150
G W Patrickoffice · suite 307p. 150
W F Porterviolins · suite 311p. 150
M R Hodgsonsurgical appliances · suite 312p. 150
H F Mileswatchmaker · suite 403p. 150
R W Handelmanufacturers agent · suite 405p. 150
Miss M C Gordoncommercial artist · suite 408p. 150
Premier Art Guildgreeting cards · suite 410p. 150
C W Byrnemanufacturers agent · suite 415p. 150

Also at this address

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

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

1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory

Streets

SEYMOUR

Names

Lawrence Lydia M drsmkr 315 h576 Seymourp. 340

The lines for 576 Seymour 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

576 Seymour Street still has a building from before 1946, one of six on the block; the City's assessment record gives 1930 as its year built.

Since 1940

1997–2005Licensed as a shop (licences on record start in 1997).
1997–2004Licensed as a workshop or warehouse (licences on record start in 1997).
1999–2005Licensed as a community association.
2018A building permit for alterations, valued at $250,000 (BP-2018-03916).
2018A building permit for alterations, valued at $1,000,000 (BP-2018-05841).
2020A building permit for alterations, valued at $130,000 (DB-2020-00442).
2024A building permit for alterations, valued at $5,000,000 (BP-2023-03898).

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 Seymour Street on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, with 576 marked — The 500 block of Seymour Street, between West Pender and Dunsmuir Streets, on Goad's fire insurance map of 1912; the map may print the street under an older name. The ring marks 576, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). Georectified by the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

The 500 block in 1940

Seymour Street between West Pender and Dunsmuir 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.

Seymour 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)

West side, odd numbers

East side, even numbers

The 500 block of Seymour Street

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576 Seymour Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. A building from before 1946 still stands there: the City's record gives 1930 as the year built.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/576-seymour, 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.