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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Beckmans

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

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

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Where the Beckmans 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

    536 East 47th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Henry Beckman, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Orr at 528 and H G Rempel at 542. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    349 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Victor Beckmann, a shoe repairer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Leong Sang at 343 and “Orientals” at 353. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2325 Vine Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J O Beckman, an engineer at Standard Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Kapel at 2305 and H A Woodford at 2345. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a carpenter, an engineer and a shoe repairer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano, Strathcona and Sunset. 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 Henry Beckman at 536 East 47th Avenue, a carpenter. The 1940 name section lists Victor Beckmann at 349 East Georgia Street, a shoe repairer. In 1940 the directory lists J O Beckman at 2325 Vine Street. The 1940 name section lists John O Beckman there as the householder, an engineer at Standard Oil.

Today

2325 Vine still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; 536 East 47th (2012) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 349 East Georgia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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

The book of the Beckmans

Every directory, as one book

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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.