A family name on Nanton Avenue, Shaughnessy
The Bells
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Bell at one address, 1888 Nanton Avenue in Shaughnessy, 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
- 1
1888 Nanton Avenue
Shaughnessy, 1940
- H G Bell, a school teacher 1940
- Edna B Bell, a school teacher 1940
- Vera E Bell, a stenographer at UBC 1940
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a school teacher (2) and a stenographer. Two of them worked for Vancouver City.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Shaughnessy. 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 H G Bell at 1888 Nanton Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harold G Bell there as the householder, a school teacher, with Edna B Bell, a school teacher, and Vera E Bell, a stenographer at UBC.
Today
The City no longer lists 1888 Nanton, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Bell H G1888 Nanton, p. 117
- Bell Edna B sch tchr Van City1888 Nanton, p. 40
- Bell Harold G sch tchr Van City1888 Nanton, p. 40
- Bell Vera E sten UBC1888 Nanton, 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.