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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Clemenses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Clemens at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Clemenses 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

    237 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • F C Clemens 1940

    Next door in 1940: Empress Hotel at 235 and F S Hikida at 239. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1190 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss I E Clemens 1940
    • Isabelle M Clemens, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: randolph apartments at 1176. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4050 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Ethel Clemens, a maid for W Byers 1940

    Next door in 1940: R V Whiteside at 4042 and T E Shiel at 4056. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a maid and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Strathcona and West Point Grey. 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 F C Clemens at 237 East Hastings Street. Miss I E Clemens is listed at 1190 West 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Isabelle M Clemens there as the householder, a school teacher. The 1940 name section lists Ethel Clemens at 4050 West 12th Avenue, a maid for W Byers.

Today

237 East Hastings and 1190 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946, 237 East Hastings on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 4050 West 12th (1991) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Clemenses

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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.