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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Alltrees

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Alltree 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 Alltrees lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1060 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Eric R Alltree, a bus operator at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: Balderston Motors (used cars) at 1056 and Dom Furn Chain Stores at 1062. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3182 West 28th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C F Alltree, a master mariner 1940

    Next door in 1940: M C Patterson at 3172 and J W Farquhar at 3194. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1245 West 8th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs Mary Altree 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Ternent at 1231 and J Wallin at 1253. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a bus operator and a master mariner.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands and Fairview. 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 Eric R Alltree at 1060 Granville Street, a bus operator at the BC Electric Railway. C F Alltree is listed at 3182 West 28th Avenue 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 Charles F Alltree there as the householder, a master mariner. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Mary Altree at 1245 West 8th Avenue.

Today

1060 Granville and 1245 West 8th still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 3182 West 28th (1993) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Alltrees

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.