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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Easthams

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Eastham 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. The most under one roof: four Easthams at 216 East 24th in 1940.

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Where the Easthams 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

    216 East 24th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A H Eastham, an engineer 1940
    • Arnold R Eastham 1940
    • Charlotte M Eastham, a waitress at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Winona G Eastham, a saleswoman at Twigg Island Dairy 1940

    Next door in 1940: A W Charlton at 214 and P C Hardy at 218. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    749 Helmcken Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J H Eastham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Granville Wood Works at 735 and Miss E McConnell at 753. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4569 West 1st Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J W Eastham, a plant pathologist at the BC Government 1940
    • Helen M Eastham, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M C Clarke at 4565 and J M Morrison at 4573. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: an engineer, a plant pathologist, a saleswoman and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Riley Park 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

In 1940 the directory lists A H Eastham at 216 East 24th Avenue; 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 Arnold H Eastham there as the householder, an engineer, with Arnold R Eastham, Charlotte M Eastham, a waitress at the Hudson's Bay Company, and Winona G Eastham, a saleswoman at Twigg Island Dairy. In 1940 the directory lists J H Eastham at 749 Helmcken Street.

J W Eastham is listed at 4569 West 1st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John W Eastham there as the householder, a plant pathologist at the BC Government, with Helen M Eastham, a student at UBC.

Today

4569 West 1st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1918 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 216 East 24th and 749 Helmcken, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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 Easthams

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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 E. Want a name removed? Tell us.