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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Barbers

In the city directories 1940 · 64 addresses on 53 streets

The directories print the Barber name at 64 addresses on 53 streets in 1940, in 17 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Barberi. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Barbers lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. Fairview8 addresses
  2. Kensington-Cedar Cottage6 addresses
  3. Kitsilano6 addresses
  4. Downtown5 addresses
  5. West End5 addresses
  6. Dunbar-Southlands4 addresses
  7. Hastings-Sunrise4 addresses
  8. Strathcona4 addresses
  9. Sunset4 addresses
  10. Grandview-Woodland3 addresses
  11. Kerrisdale3 addresses
  12. Mount Pleasant3 addresses
  13. Renfrew-Collingwood3 addresses
  14. West Point Grey3 addresses
  15. Killarney1 address
  16. Riley Park1 address
  17. Victoria-Fraserview1 address

Where the name was printed

The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.

  1. 1
    West BroadwayFour addresses in Fairview; five people: A Barber, C Barber, H G Barber and two more
    1940
  2. 2
    Robson StreetThree addresses in Downtown and West End; four people: A Barber, Mrs G R Barber, Janet H Barber and one more
    1940
  3. 3
    West 12th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; seven people: H Barber, Mrs F H Barber, Florence R Barber and four more
    1940
  4. 4
    East BroadwayTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; three people: J M Barber, T G Barber and Roy F Barber
    1940
  5. 5
    Nelson StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: Bert Barber and Edna A H Barber
    1940
  6. 6
    West 10th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; two people: H G Barber and Rupert Barber
    1940
  7. 7
    West 7th AvenueTwo addresses in Kitsilano; four people: H Barber, G Beatrice E Barber, Ivan S Barber and one more
    1940
  8. 8
    Adanac StreetOne address in Hastings-Sunrise; one person: W G Barber
    1940
  9. 9
    Alice StreetOne address in Kensington-Cedar Cottage; two people: H A Barber and Ernest R Barber
    1940
  10. 10
    Barclay StreetOne address in West End; one person: Barber (no first name printed)
    1940
  11. 11
    Cambridge StreetOne address in Grandview-Woodland; two people: H M Barber and Phyllis M Barber
    1940
  12. 12
    Commercial StreetOne address in Kensington-Cedar Cottage; one person: R M Barber
    1940

41 more streets, by name: Dunbar Street (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 16th Avenue (1), East 49th Avenue (1), East 4th Avenue (1), East 51st Avenue (1), East 8th Avenue (1), East Georgia Street (1), East Pender Street (1), Fraser Street (1), Hamilton Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Keefer Street (1), Kingsway (1), Knight Street (1), Laburnum Street (1), Macdonald Street (1), Mackenzie Street (1), Main Street (1), Ormidale Street (1), Parker Street (1), Prince Albert Street (1), Richards Street (1), Ross Street (1), Rupert Street (1), Turner Street (1), Venables Street (1), Victoria Drive (1), Wall Street (1), Waterloo Street (1), West 15th Avenue (1), West 24th Avenue (1), West 28th Avenue (1), West 29th Avenue (1), West 2nd Avenue (1), West 41st Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 8th Avenue (1), West Cordova Street (1), Windsor Street (1), Yew Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 64 addresses, 18 still have their buildings from before 1946, 14 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 32; each street's page names them.

The book of the Barbers

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under B. Want a name removed? Tell us.