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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Annetts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

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

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Where the Annetts 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

    4861 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • U S Annett, a salesman at Canadian Industries Limited 1940
    • Frederick W Annett, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Bartram at 4837 and G A Robinson at 4887. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2315 Hemlock Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • A Annett, proprietor of Vancouver Car Sales 1940

    Next door in 1940: F G W Penrose at 2305 and F C Cudlipp at 2325. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a proprietor and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and Shaughnessy. 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 U S Annett at 4861 Angus Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ulric S Annett there as the householder, a salesman at Canadian Industries Limited, with Frederick W Annett, retired. In 1940 the directory lists A Annett at 2315 Hemlock Street. The 1940 name section lists Albert Annett there as the householder, proprietor of Vancouver Car Sales.

Today

4861 Angus Drive (1986) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2315 Hemlock, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 4861 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 4800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Annetts

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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.