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A family name on Adera Street, Kerrisdale and Marpole

The Bells

In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address

The directories print five people named Bell at one address, 5837 Adera Street in Kerrisdale, in 1940. The directories print the name on 137 other streets too, all listed on the Bell name's own page.

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The Bells at home

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    5837 Adera Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Mrs E Bell, widow of G A 1940
    • Ella M Bell, a bookkeeper 1940
    • Ethel Bell, a stenographer at Bell & Mitchell 1940
    • Grace A Bell, a stenographer at Thompson Agencies 1940
    • Harold A Bell 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Thompson at 5811 and J R Whyte at 5861. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a stenographer (2) and a bookkeeper. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kerrisdale. 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 Mrs E Bell at 5837 Adera Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Elizabeth Bell there as the householder, widow of G A, with Ella M Bell, a bookkeeper, Ethel Bell, a stenographer at Bell & Mitchell, Grace A Bell, a stenographer at Thompson Agencies, and Harold A Bell.

Today

5837 Adera (1989) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Bells

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.