A family name on Jervis Street, West End and Downtown
The Barneses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Barnes at one address, 621 Jervis Street in Downtown, in 1940, with the close spellings Bairnes and Barness. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Barnes name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Barneses at home
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621 Jervis Street
Downtown, 1940
- M Barness, a carpenter 1940
- Mrs Lorraine Barness, a manager at the Lancaster Apartments 1940
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a carpenter and a manager.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 M Barness at 621 Jervis Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Milton Barness there as the householder, a carpenter, with Mrs Lorraine Barness, a manager at the Lancaster Apartments.
Today
621 Jervis (2003) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Barness M621 Jervis, p. 91
- Barness Mrs Lorraine mgr Lancaster Apts621 Jervis, p. 32
- Barness Milton carp621 Jervis, p. 32
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Barneses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Barnes 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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Another name, or a house
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.