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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Allaires

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Allaire at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Allaires 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

    125 East 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • A Allaire, a moulder 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M A Gray at 117 and Mrs E M Johnson at 137. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    705 West 13th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Eugene J Allaire, a salesman at Gordon & Belyea 1940

    Next door in 1940: L B Jones at 725. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2255 West 15th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Antonia Allaire, widow of P W 1940

    Next door in 1940: J M Crawford at 2247 and R G Hudson at 2265. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a moulder and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. 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 A Allaire at 125 East 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Albert Allaire there as the householder, a moulder. The 1940 name section lists Eugene J Allaire at 705 West 13th Avenue, a salesman at Gordon & Belyea. The 1940 name section lists Antonia Allaire at 2255 West 15th Avenue, widow of P W.

Today

125 East 4th (1959) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 705 West 13th and 2255 West 15th, so those buildings are 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.