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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Battayes

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Battaye at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Battye. 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 Battayes 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

    3553 Point Grey Road

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H S Battye 1940
    • Harold D Battye, who worked for Boeing's 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Kemp at 3549 and R J Dunn at 3555. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1079 Seymour Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J E Battaye, a driver at C P Express 1940

    Next door in 1940: E McCarry at 1073 and T W Barrow at 1083. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a driver and an employee.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Kitsilano. 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 H S Battye at 3553 Point Grey Road. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harold D Battye there as the householder, who worked for Boeing's. In 1940 the directory lists J E Battaye at 1079 Seymour Street. The 1940 name section lists Joseph E Battaye there as the householder, a driver at C P Express.

Today

3553 Point Grey Road (1973) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1079 Seymour, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road
About 1912 A woman and three children sitting in the long grass in the yard of 2890 Point Grey Road. Not at the house at 3553 Point Grey Road: no archive photo of the 3500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Bu P113.3. Public domain.

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, street section

The book of the Battayes

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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.