A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Fessers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Fesser at one address, 2409 West 41st Avenue in Arbutus Ridge, in 1940.
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The Fessers at home
Ridge
- 1
2409 West 41st Avenue
Arbutus Ridge, 1940
- Miss E J Fesser 1940
- Emma J Fesser, a hairdresser at Elenor's Beauty Shoppe 1940
- Esther G Fesser, a seamstress at the Sanitary Dry Cleaning & Dye Works 1940
Next door in 1940: T G Beazley at 2407 and H H Robinson at 2411. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a hairdresser and a seamstress.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Arbutus Ridge. 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 Miss E J Fesser at 2409 West 41st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Emma J Fesser there as the householder, a hairdresser at Elenor's Beauty Shoppe, with Esther G Fesser, a seamstress at the Sanitary Dry Cleaning & Dye Works.
Today
The City no longer lists 2409 West 41st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Fesser Miss E J2409 West 41st, p. 258
- Fesser Emma J hairdrsr Elenor's Beauty Shoppe2409 West 41st, p. 195
- Fesser Esther G smstrs Sanitary Dry Clng & Dye Wks2409 West 41st, p. 195
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Fessers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Fesser 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.