A family name on West 43rd Avenue, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Dunbar-Southlands
The Chamberses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Chambers at one address, 2158 West 43rd Avenue in Kerrisdale, in 1940. The directories print the name on 41 other streets too, all listed on the Chambers name's own page.
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The Chamberses at home
- 1
2158 West 43rd Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- Mrs A M Chambers, widow of A 1940
- A Clif Chambers, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940
- Marjorie B Chambers, a stenographer at Columbia Paper 1940
Next door in 1940: S McKendrick at 2146 and B L Williams at 2164. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a laborer and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kerrisdale. 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 Mrs A M Chambers at 2158 West 43rd Avenue; 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 Annie M Chambers there as the householder, widow of A, with A Clif Chambers, a laborer at the City of Vancouver, and Marjorie B Chambers, a stenographer at Columbia Paper.
Today
The City no longer lists 2158 West 43rd, 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.
- *Chambers Mrs A M2158 West 43rd, p. 260
- Chambers A Clif lab Van City2158 West 43rd, p. 105
- Chambers Annie M wid A2158 West 43rd, p. 105
- Chambers Marjorie B sten Columbia Paper2158 West 43rd, p. 105
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Chamberses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Chambers 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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.