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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bowerings

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Bowering at four 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 Bowerings 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

    1637 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • H H Bowering, a fire captain at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Olive Bowering, a stenographer for W H Malkin 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs I Fayle at 1629 and D Sommers at 1645. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    825 East 20th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • S Bowering, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Hayworth at 819 and W A Coull at 833. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    909 East 21st Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • E W Bowering, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Yule at 939. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1643 Kitchener Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Dorothy Bowering 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Marino at 1637 and Salvation Army Hall at 1649. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a carpenter, a fire captain, a school teacher and a stenographer. Two of them worked for Vancouver City.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2), Grandview-Woodland and West End. 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 H Bowering at 1637 Comox Street; 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 Harvey H Bowering there as the householder, a fire captain at the City of Vancouver, with Olive Bowering, a stenographer for W H Malkin. In 1940 the directory lists S Bowering at 825 East 20th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Sam Bowering there as the householder, a carpenter.

In 1940 the directory lists E W Bowering at 909 East 21st Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Ebbie W Bowering there as the householder, a school teacher. The 1940 name section lists Dorothy Bowering at 1643 Kitchener Street.

Today

909 East 21st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1935 by the City's record; 825 East 20th (1992) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1637 Comox and 1643 Kitchener, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees
1925 Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees. Not at the house at 1637 Comox: no archive photo of the 1600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.