A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown
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 Pender Street. 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
- 1
940 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- T A Bell, a laborer 1940
Next door in 1940: Lundberg A Co at 938 and L J Mahrer at 942. The block, door by door
- 2
1432 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs S G Bell, widow of C F 1940
- Enid H Bell, a waitress at Spencer's 1940
Next door in 1940: W Pickard at 1422 and Mrs F Stockwell at 1438. The block, door by door
- 3
1461 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Thomas Bell, a cook 1940
Next door in 1940: L Gatti at 1439. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a cook, a laborer and a waitress. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 T A Bell at 940 West Pender Street, a laborer. Mrs S G Bell, rooms to let, is listed at 1432 West Pender Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Solrun Bell there, widow of C F, with Enid H Bell, a waitress at Spencer's. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Bell at 1461 West Pender Street, a cook.
Today
The City no longer lists 940 West Pender, 1432 West Pender and 1461 West Pender, so those buildings are 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.
- Bell T A lab940 West Pender, p. 41
- Bell Mrs S G rooms1432 West Pender, p. 132
- Bell Enid H waitress Spencers1432 West Pender, p. 40
- Bell Solrun wid C F1432 West Pender, p. 41
- Bell Thos cook1461 West Pender, p. 41
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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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.