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A family name on West 7th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Barbers

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Barber at two addresses in 1940, all on West 7th Avenue, with the close spelling Barberi. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 52 other streets too, all listed on the Barber name's own page.

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Where the Barbers 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

    2635 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • G Beatrice E Barber, widow of A S 1940
    • Ivan S Barber, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: C W Silvester at 2627 and Mrs A Johnson at 2637. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3556 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H Barber 1940
    • Marjorie Barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs R M O'Kelly at 3530. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2). 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 G Beatrice E Barber at 2635 West 7th Avenue as the householder, widow of A S, with Ivan S Barber, a salesman. H Barber is listed at 3556 West 7th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harry Barber there as the householder, with Marjorie Barber.

Today

2635 West 7th and 3556 West 7th still have their buildings from before 1946, 2635 West 7th on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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

The book of the Barbers

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Barber name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.