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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Chamens

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Chamen at one address, 1637 Nelson Street in West End, in 1940.

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The Chamens at home

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).
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    1637 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs A W Chamen, widow of T 1940
    • Lorraine V Chamen, a saleswoman at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs F B Rofe at 1625 and Mrs D Snider at 1643. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a saleswoman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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 Mrs A W Chamen at 1637 Nelson Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Annie W Chamen there as the householder, widow of T, with Lorraine V Chamen, a saleswoman at Spencer's.

Today

The City no longer lists 1637 Nelson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Nelson Street, a wide street of houses behind hedges
About 1915 Nelson Street, a wide street of houses behind hedges. Not at the house at 1637 Nelson: no archive photo of the 1600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P181.2. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Chamens

Every directory, as one book

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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.