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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Botfields

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Botfield at two addresses in 1940 in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Botfields lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    874 East 18th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Victor H Botfield, a driver at Canada Packers 1940

    Next door in 1940: W W Evans at 870 and J Rigby at 876. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5235 Gladstone Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • J W Botfield, a trackman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Theo Botfield, a messboy at the CNR 1940

    Next door in 1940: E O St Denis at 5211 and J A Lindmark at 5251. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a driver, a messboy and a trackman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2). 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 Victor H Botfield at 874 East 18th Avenue, a driver at Canada Packers. J W Botfield is listed at 5235 Gladstone 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 lists John W Botfield there as the householder, a trackman at the BC Electric Railway, with Theo Botfield, a messboy at the CNR.

Today

5235 Gladstone (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 874 East 18th, 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 Botfields

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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.