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A family name on West 4th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Bells

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Bell at two addresses in 1940, all on West 4th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Bells at 4745 West 4th 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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Where the Bells lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2190 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Evelyn W Bell, a waitress at CN Lunch Counter 1940

    Next door in 1940: A C Giles at 2194. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4745 West 4th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • W O Bell, a secretary-treasurer at Coast Breweries 1940
    • Bernhard E Bell, a salesman 1940
    • Evelyn A Bell 1940

    Next door in 1940: T W Ayres at 4735 and J McKee at 4755. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a salesman, a secretary-treasurer and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano and West Point Grey. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Evelyn W Bell at 2190 West 4th Avenue, a waitress at CN Lunch Counter. W O Bell is listed at 4745 West 4th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists W Oliphant Bell there as the householder, a secretary-treasurer at Coast Breweries, with Bernhard E Bell, a salesman, and Evelyn A Bell.

Today

4745 West 4th (2011) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2190 West 4th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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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.