A family name on East 22nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Alexanders
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Alexander at one address, 1258 East 22nd Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 75 other streets too, all listed on the Alexander name's own page.
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The Alexanders at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1258 East 22nd Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- E J Alexander, a carpenter 1940
- Beryl M Alexander, a branch manager at Canadian Window Bakeries 1940
- Margaret E Alexander, a waitress 1940
Next door in 1940: F Bond at 1248 and W R Griffiths at 1266. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a branch manager, a carpenter and a waitress.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
In 1940 the directory lists E J Alexander at 1258 East 22nd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edwin J Alexander there as the householder, a carpenter, with Beryl M Alexander, a branch manager at Canadian Window Bakeries, and Margaret E Alexander, a waitress.
Today
The City no longer lists 1258 East 22nd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Alexander E J1258 East 22nd, p. 234
- Alexander Beryl M br mgr Can Window Bkries1258 East 22nd, p. 7
- Alexander Edwin J carp1258 East 22nd, p. 7
- Alexander Margt E waitress1258 East 22nd, p. 7
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Alexanders
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Alexander name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under A. Want a name removed? Tell us.