Two of the Elder household are listed at 619 Smithe Street in 1940: Merrill Elder, a president at Superior Health Food; and Mrs Sadie Elder, a secretary at Superior Health Food.
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- 2
- people the 1940 directory lists here
- Address gone
- today, by the City's records
In 1940
The household
- Merrill Eldera president at Superior Health Food · householderp. 180
Also under the Elder name
- Mrs Sadie Eldera secretary at Superior Health Food · lives herep. 180
Smithe Street is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.
1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory
Streets
SMITHE
Names
The house today
The City's list of addresses no longer has 619 Smithe Street, so the building is probably gone (inferred); the 600 block of Smithe Street keeps no building from before 1946; the nearest of its old addresses still on the City's list is 601, with a building from 2011.
The 600 block in 1940
Smithe Street between Seymour and Granville 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.
Smithe Street, the 600 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
- 601Morrays Fountain Lunchrebuilt
- 603Fashionette Beauty Shopgone
- 607Betty's Delctsngone
- 611Fitzpatrick E Rgone
- 613Clothes Hospitalgone
- 615*Truscott C Fgone
- 619Elder Mgone
- 621Lott Jgone
- 623Quaint Gift Shopgone
- 657Pac Hat Worksgone
- 663Seymour Clnrs & Dyersgone
- 665Acme Radio Servgone
- 667Lam Kee Laundrygone
- 669Ever-Ready Taxigone
- 671Orpheum Barber Shopgone
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619 Smithe Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The City no longer lists the address.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/619-smithe, 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.