A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Bedlows
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Bedlow at one address, 2535 West 6th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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 Bedlows at home
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2535 West 6th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- S W Bedlow, a logger 1940
- Olive W Bedlow, a clerk at Spencer's 1940
Next door in 1940: C F Gilbert at 2525 and A A Driscoll at 2545. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a logger.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 S W Bedlow at 2535 West 6th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sam W Bedlow there as the householder, a logger, with Olive W Bedlow, a clerk at Spencer's.
Today
2535 West 6th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Bedlow S W2535 West 6th, p. 188
- Bedlow Olive W clk Spencers2535 West 6th, p. 39
- Bedlow Sam W logr2535 West 6th, p. 39
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Bedlows
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Bedlow 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.