A family name on Carnarvon Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano and Dunbar-Southlands
The Bells
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Bell at one address, 5830 Carnarvon Street in Kerrisdale, in 1940. The directories print the name on 137 other streets too, all listed on the Bell name's own page.
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 Bells at home
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What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a manager.
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 April 1929 Norman Bell took out the permit to build a house at 5830 Carnarvon Street. In 1940 the directory lists W N Bell at 5830 Carnarvon Street; 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 W Norman Bell there as the householder, a manager at Aluminum Goods, with Mrs Jessie Bell.
Today
The City no longer lists 5830 Carnarvon, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Bell W N5830 Carnarvon, p. 27
- Bell Mrs Jessie5830 Carnarvon, p. 40
- Bell W Norman mgr Aluminum Goods5830 Carnarvon, p. 41
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Bells
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Bell 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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Another name, or a house
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.