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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Fenners

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Fenner at four addresses in 1940 in four 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 Fenners 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

    4810 Elgin Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C Fenner, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss R Ruschkowski at 4824. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    660 Gilford Street

    West End, 1940

    • Thomas D Fenner, a machinist foreman at the Vancouver Shipyards 1940

    Next door in 1940: E R Deacon at 678. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3667 West 15th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J W Fenner, a superintendent cargo at Empire Ship 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Andersen at 3657 and G T Tuson at 3675. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2406 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Frank Fenner, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Fransen at 2416. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a laborer, a machinist foreman and a superintendent cargo.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Kitsilano, West End 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 C Fenner at 4810 Elgin 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 Charles Fenner there as the householder, a laborer. The 1940 name section lists Thomas D Fenner at 660 Gilford Street, a machinist foreman at the Vancouver Shipyards.

J W Fenner is listed at 3667 West 15th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Joseph W Fenner there as the householder, a superintendent cargo at Empire Ship. The 1940 name section lists Frank Fenner at 2406 West 3rd Avenue, retired.

Today

4810 Elgin (2001) and 3667 West 15th (1994) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 660 Gilford and 2406 West 3rd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.