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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Birtwistles

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Birtwistle at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Birtwistles 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

    5688 Holland Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Mrs Hilda M Birtwistle 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Franks at 5662. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1533 West Broadway

    Fairview, 1940

    • E Birtwistle, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: Holt's Dairy Lunch at 1523 and Sta D Postal at 1535. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    921 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • E Birtwistle, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: Registration Bureau Stenographers at 911 and Weeks & Co Ltd at 923. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an accountant (2).

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands and Fairview. 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 Mrs Hilda M Birtwistle at 5688 Holland Street. E Birtwistle is listed at 1533 West Broadway in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Edgar Birtwistle there as the householder, an accountant. The 1940 name section lists E Birtwistle at 921 West Pender Street, an accountant.

Today

5688 Holland and 921 West Pender still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1533 West Broadway, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Birtwistles

Every directory, as one book

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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.