A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Beechers
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Beecher at one address, 95 East 17th Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940.
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The Beechers at home
- 1
95 East 17th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- J Beecher, a driver for Palm Dairies 1940
- George H Beecher, a clerk at the Post Office 1940
Next door in 1940: A Reid at 71. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a driver.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 J Beecher at 95 East 17th 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 James Beecher there as the householder, proprietor of Auto Laundry & Paint Removing, with James R Beecher, a driver for Palm Dairies, and George H Beecher, a clerk at the Post Office.
Today
95 East 17th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Beecher J95 East 17th, p. 224
- Beecher Geo H clk PO95 East 17th, p. 39
- Beecher Jas prop Auto Lndy & Paint Removing95 East 17th, p. 39
- Beecher Jas R drvr Palm Dairies95 East 17th, p. 39
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Beechers
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.