Vancouver / Names / B / Broadfoot

A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Broadfoots

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

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

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.

Where the Broadfoots 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

    1342 Jervis Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mary Broadfoot, a waitress at the Quilchena Golf Club 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C Mitchell at 1310 and J F Waterfall at 1360. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    646 Semlin Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E C Broadfoot, a machinist 1940

    Next door in 1940: S R Bowell at 634 and M Ricci at 696. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2940 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs M J Broadfoot 1940
    • C Rea Broadfoot, a radio technician 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Wicks at 2922 and M G Perkins at 2958. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    119 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • P Broadfoot, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: B C Leather Co Ltd at 117 and Jackson T H Ltd at 121. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a machinist, a radio technician and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Grandview-Woodland, Kitsilano 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mary Broadfoot at 1342 Jervis Street, a waitress at the Quilchena Golf Club. E C Broadfoot is listed at 646 Semlin Drive in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Earle C Broadfoot there as the householder, a machinist.

Mrs M J Broadfoot is listed at 2940 West 6th Avenue 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 Mrs Margaret J Broadfoot there as the householder, with C Rea Broadfoot, a radio technician. P Broadfoot, a manufacturers agent, is listed at 119 West Pender Street in 1940.

Today

646 Semlin Drive, 2940 West 6th and 119 West Pender still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1342 Jervis, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Broadfoots

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Broadfoot 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.

We're opening orders soon. Join the list to be first in line; we expect about $29 a family.

One email, when it's ready. We use your email for nothing else and never share it. Privacy

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.