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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bethells

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Bethell at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. 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 Bethells at 3261 Nanaimo in 1940.

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Where the Bethells lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    413 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • H J Bethell, a notary 1940

    Next door in 1940: Ziegler's Chocolate Shops at 411 and Linforth's Ltd at 417. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3261 Nanaimo Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • H J Bethell, a notary public 1940
    • Mrs Esther Bethell, a manager at West Green 1940
    • Kate M Bethell, a stenographer at Seaboard Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Jarvis at 3239 and E Dann at 3285. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a manager, a notary public and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 J Bethell, a notary, at 413 Granville Street. H J Bethell is listed at 3261 Nanaimo Street 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Henry J Bethell there as the householder, a notary public, with Mrs Esther Bethell, a manager at West Green, and Kate M Bethell, a stenographer at Seaboard Lumber.

Today

3261 Nanaimo (1969) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 413 Granville, 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, street section

The book of the Bethells

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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.