A family name on East 10th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Bennetts
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Bennett at two addresses in 1940, all on East 10th Avenue, with the close spelling Bennet. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 116 other streets too, all listed on the Bennett name's own page.
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Where the Bennetts lived
Pleasant
- 1
616 East 10th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- J W Bennett, a laborer 1940
- Eleanor M Bennett, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
Next door in 1940: W Davidson at 624. The block, door by door
- 2
1492 East 10th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- W J Bennett, a druggist at Pacific Drug 1940
- John A Bennett, a clerk at Empire Brass 1940
Next door in 1940: B Bordewick at 1472. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a clerk, a druggist, a laborer and an operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. 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 J W Bennett at 616 East 10th 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 John W Bennett there as the householder, a laborer, with Eleanor M Bennett, an operator at the BC Telephone. In 1940 the directory lists W J Bennett at 1492 East 10th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William J Bennett there as the householder, a druggist at Pacific Drug, with John A Bennett, a clerk at Empire Brass.
Today
616 East 10th and 1492 East 10th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Bennett J W616 East 10th, p. 198
- Bennett Eleanor M opr BC Tel616 East 10th, p. 42
- Bennett John W lab616 East 10th, p. 43
- *Bennett W J1492 East 10th, p. 198
- Bennett John A clk Empire Brass1492 East 10th, p. 42
- Bennett Wm J druggist Pac Drug1492 East 10th, p. 43
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Bennetts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Bennett 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.