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A family name on West 26th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Shaughnessy

The Campbells

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Campbell at two addresses in 1940, all on West 26th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 204 other streets too, all listed on the Campbell name's own page.

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Where the Campbells 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

    1550 West 26th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Louise C Campbell 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr L H Leeson at 1530 and H F Mitchell at 1564. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3758 West 26th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • David B Campbell, an assistant buyer at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: M J Sweeney at 3750 and Mrs M M Fraser at 3782. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an assistant buyer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and Shaughnessy. 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 Louise C Campbell at 1550 West 26th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists David B Campbell at 3758 West 26th Avenue, an assistant buyer at the Hudson's Bay Company.

Today

1550 West 26th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 3758 West 26th (1977) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 2 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 Campbells

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Campbell 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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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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.