A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Chesnesses
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Chesness at one address, 2149 Grant Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.
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The Chesnesses at home
Woodland
- 1
2149 Grant Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- M C Chesness, a salesman at Woodward's 1940
Next door in 1940: Rev S McM Kerr at 2141 and W J Park at 2155. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 M C Chesness at 2149 Grant Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Marvin C Chesness there as the householder, a salesman at Woodward's.
Today
2149 Grant still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 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.
- Chesness M C2149 Grant, p. 61
- Chesness Marvin C slsmn Woodward's2149 Grant, p. 107
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Chesnesses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Chesness 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.