A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Fearmans
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Fearman at one address, 1775 West 16th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940.
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The Fearmans at home
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1775 West 16th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- F W Fearman, a log department at Canadian White Pine 1940
- Margaret E Fearman, a stenographer for F W Fearman 1940
- Mary H Fearman, a clerk at the Bank of Montreal 1940
Next door in 1940: G K Noble at 1765 and S N Bayne at 1785. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a log department and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Fairview. 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 F W Fearman at 1775 West 16th 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 Frederick W Fearman there as the householder, a president and manager at F W Fearman Ltd, with Frederick W Fearman Jr, a log department at Canadian White Pine, Margaret E Fearman, a stenographer for F W Fearman, and Mary H Fearman, a clerk at the Bank of Montreal.
Today
1775 West 16th still has its building from before 1946, on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Fearman F W1775 West 16th, p. 223
- Fearman Fredk W pres and mgr F W Fearman Ltd1775 West 16th, p. 192
- Fearman Fredk W Jr log dept Can White Pine1775 West 16th, p. 192
- Fearman Margt E sten F W Fearman1775 West 16th, p. 192
- Fearman Mary H clk Bk of Mont1775 West 16th, p. 192
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Fearmans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Fearman name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.