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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Deemings

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Deeming at two addresses in 1940 in Mount Pleasant. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Deemings 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

    2314 Ontario Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C J Deeming, a first aid man 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Wilson at 2304 and R McAllister at 2322. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2423 Windsor Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs Jane J Deeming 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a first aid man.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2). 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 C J Deeming at 2314 Ontario Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Caleb J Deeming there as the householder, a first aid man. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Jane J Deeming at 2423 Windsor Street.

Today

2314 Ontario still has its building from before 1946, dated 1905 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 2423 Windsor, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A large group, Rev. Ebenezer Robson among them, in front of Mount Pleasant Methodist Church
About 1907 A large group, Rev. Ebenezer Robson among them, in front of Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. Not at the house at 2314 Ontario: no archive photo of the 2300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Ch P166. 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 Deemings

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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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.