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A family name on Bute Street, West End and Downtown

The Evanses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Evans at three addresses in 1940, all on Bute Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 110 other streets too, all listed on the Evans name's own page.

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Where the Evanses 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

    647 Bute Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Claude M Evans, a clerk 1940

    Next door in 1940: stadacona apts at 601 and Mrs S F Brelsford at 649. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    925 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • W Evans, an elevator operator at the Georgia Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Robinson at 975. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1104 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • William B Evans 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Worsfold at 1110. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and an elevator operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2) and Downtown. 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 Claude M Evans at 647 Bute Street, a clerk. W Evans is listed at 925 Bute Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Walter Evans there as the householder, an elevator operator at the Georgia Hotel. The 1940 name section lists William B Evans at 1104 Bute Street.

Today

925 Bute and 1104 Bute still have their buildings from before 1946, 925 Bute on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 647 Bute, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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 Evanses

Every directory, as one book

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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.