A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Biscuits
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Biscuit at one address, 4383 West 10th Avenue in West Point Grey, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Biscuits at home
Point Grey
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4383 West 10th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- Barrel Biscuit, a bakery 1940
Next door in 1940: Horse Shoe Dairy Lunch at 4381 and T Braidwood at 4393. The block, door by door
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West Point Grey. 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 Barrel Biscuit, a bakery, at 4383 West 10th Avenue.
Today
The City no longer lists 4383 West 10th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
The line printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Biscuit Barrel bky4383 West 10th, p. 201
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Biscuits
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Biscuit 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.