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A family name on West 6th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Bells

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Bell at three addresses in 1940, all on West 6th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. 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

    1448 West 6th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Malcolm Bell, an ironworker 1940
    • Sam Bell, a helper at Ornamental Bronze 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Dennis at 1434 and E C Rixon at 1454. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1776 West 6th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • W A Bell, a baker at McGavin 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L McConeghy at 1768. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3250 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • B H Bell, a checker at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: A L Haigh at 3242 and H T R Mason at 3254. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a baker, a checker, a helper and an ironworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Kitsilano. 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 Malcolm Bell at 1448 West 6th Avenue, an ironworker, with Sam Bell, a helper at Ornamental Bronze. W A Bell is listed at 1776 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Wilmer A Bell there as the householder, a baker at McGavin.

B H Bell is listed at 3250 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Brian H Bell there as the householder, a checker at Canadian White Pine.

Today

3250 West 6th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1448 West 6th and 1776 West 6th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, 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.