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A family name on Harwood Street, West End

The Alexanders

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Alexander at three addresses in 1940, all on Harwood Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 75 other streets too, all listed on the Alexander name's own page.

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Where the Alexanders lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1052 Harwood Street

    West End, 1940

    • Alexander 1940

    Next door in 1940: T J Wellman at 1046 and L C Parkes at 1056. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1285 Harwood Street

    West End, 1940

    • Miss M L Alexander, rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: eastwood place at 1245. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1366 Harwood Street

    West End, 1940

    • Bessie A Alexander, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Hobday at 1360 and J Godwin at 1370. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a music teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (3). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alexander at 1052 Harwood Street. Miss M L Alexander, rooms to let, is listed at 1285 Harwood Street in 1940; 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 lists Bessie A Alexander at 1366 Harwood Street, a music teacher.

Today

1285 Harwood (1979) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1052 Harwood and 1366 Harwood, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Alexanders

Every directory, as one book

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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.