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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Clifts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Clift 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 Clifts lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1110 East 18th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • William Clift, a tailor at Parisienne Ladies Tailoring 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Pomeroy at 1122. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6969 Fraser Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • R W Clift, a blacksmith 1940
  3. 3

    3405 West 21st Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • E F Clift, a salesman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: E W Liechti at 3413. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a blacksmith, a salesman and a tailor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset. 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 William Clift at 1110 East 18th Avenue, a tailor at Parisienne Ladies Tailoring. R W Clift is listed at 6969 Fraser Street 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 W Clift there as the householder, a blacksmith.

E F Clift is listed at 3405 West 21st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Everett F Clift there as the householder, a salesman at the Hudson's Bay Company.

Today

1110 East 18th (1975), 6969 Fraser (1950) and 3405 West 21st (1987) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street
17 March 1936 The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street. Not at the house at 6969 Fraser: no archive photo of the 6900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4867. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Clifts

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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.