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A family name on East 52nd Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney

The Bells

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Bell at one address, 2128 East 52nd Avenue in Victoria-Fraserview, 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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    2128 East 52nd Avenue

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • A Bell, a laundryman at the Vancouver Hotel 1940
    • John Bell, a laborer 1940
    • Margaret Bell, a laundress at the Vancouver Hotel 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a laborer, a laundress and a laundryman. Two of them worked for Vancouver Hotel.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Victoria-Fraserview. 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 A Bell at 2128 East 52nd 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 Albert Bell there as the householder, a laundryman at the Vancouver Hotel, with John Bell, a laborer, and Margaret Bell, a laundress at the Vancouver Hotel.

Today

2128 East 52nd (1991) has a newer building, 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.
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.