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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cheynes

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Cheyne 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.

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Where the Cheynes 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

    2585 East Broadway

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • R H Cheyne, a machinist at the Ideal Iron Works 1940
    • Mrs Dorothy Cheyne 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Jones at 2579. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1226 West 11th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Grace Cheyne, a domestic 1940

    Next door in 1940: J D Smith at 1236. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3663 West 30th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R H Cheyne, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Dournovo at 3649 and M H J Rose at 3677. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    801 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Robert Cheyne, a secretary-treasurer at D J Smith Equipment 1940

    Next door in 1940: devonshire hotel at 849. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a domestic, a machinist and a secretary-treasurer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands, Fairview and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 R H Cheyne at 2585 East Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert H Cheyne there as the householder, a machinist at the Ideal Iron Works, with Mrs Dorothy Cheyne. The 1940 name section lists Grace Cheyne at 1226 West 11th Avenue, a domestic.

R H Cheyne is listed at 3663 West 30th 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 Robert H Cheyne there as the householder, retired. The 1940 name section lists Robert Cheyne at 801 West Georgia Street, a secretary-treasurer at D J Smith Equipment.

Today

2585 East Broadway, 1226 West 11th, 3663 West 30th and 801 West Georgia still have their buildings from before 1946, 801 West Georgia on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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, street section

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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.