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Downtown, Vancouver

822 Seymour Street

In the 1940 city directory.

The 1940 directory lists 19 firms and 17 other lines at 822 Seymour Street; the firms' trades: produce, eggs, florist and others. The street section prints 16 names the name section doesn't list: A Telosky, Mrs S Whittard and 14 others. Its name section lists one more person here under another surname too.

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17
people the 1940 directory lists here, one of them named in the book
Rebuilt in 2005
today, by the City's records

In 1940

The street section

  • 36 linesBlackburn's Public Markets and its suites and households, each on the page beside

Only in the street section

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

  1. 822Blackburn's Public Mktsp. 150
  2. 822Smiling Serv fruit & prodp. 150
  3. 822Henry's Lunchp. 150
  4. 822Telosky A prodp. 150
  5. 822Whittard Mrs S prodp. 150
  6. 822Blackburns Mkt Cigar Standp. 150
  7. 822Braverman L wtch reprp. 150
  8. 822Brend S R prodp. 150
  9. 822Brown Mrs M farm prodp. 150
  10. 822Burnaby Poultry Prods eggsp. 150
  11. 822Day S F fruit & prodp. 150
  12. 822Drugateriap. 150
  13. 822Galloway D dried fruitp. 150
  14. 822Holms H H pltyp. 150
  15. 822Holms W J W E pltyp. 150
  16. 822McKenney Mrs A farm prodp. 150
  17. 822Maclean H floristp. 150
  18. 822Marina Flower Shop floristp. 150
  19. 822Rainier Packing Co meats etcp. 150
  20. 822Market Prod Cop. 150
  21. 822Pyle F farm prodp. 150
  22. 822Robinson Mrs M farm prodp. 150
  23. 822Sam's Lunchp. 150
  24. 822Standard Imptg tea and coffeep. 150
  25. 822Reid A bakerp. 150
  26. 822Ideal Quality Mkt meatsp. 150
  27. 822Speedway Serv Shop restrp. 150
  28. 822Cloverdale Dairy Prodsp. 150
  29. 822Lum Bros fruit and prodp. 150
  30. 822Braemar Bkyp. 150
  31. 822Can Wind Bkriesp. 150
  32. 822Lusk C W nurserymnp. 150
  33. 822Lowe's Fruit-Terriap. 150
  34. 822Central Prod Cop. 150
  35. 822Liquiteria liquid foodsp. 150
  36. 822Furniss A fruit treesp. 150
The lines for 822 Seymour Street in the 1940 directory, as we read them, with its abbreviations; each opens its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The building today

The building the 1940 directory knew is gone: the City dates the building at 822 now to 2005; none of the eleven old addresses on the 800 block of Seymour Street keeps a building from before 1946.

Since 1940

  1. 1997–2012Licensed as a parking lot (licences on record start in 1997).
  2. 2005Today's building goes up, by the City's record.
  3. 2010–2019Licensed 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 800 block of Seymour Street on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, with 822 marked
The 800 block of Seymour Street, between Robson and Smithe Streets, on Goad's fire insurance map of 1912; the map may print the street under an older name. The ring marks 822, placed from the City's address point today (inferred). Georectified by the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

The 800 block in 1940

Seymour Street between Robson and Smithe 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 800 blockas the 1940 directory lists it, door by door, and what stands there today

The 800 block of Seymour Street

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822 Seymour Street, Downtown, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The building there today dates from 2005, by the City's record.

Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/822-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.