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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Fierhellers

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named Fierheller at five 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 Fierhellers 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

    718 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • R C Fierheller, a dentist 1940

    Next door in 1940: Birks H & Sons (BC) Ltd at 710 and scott's cafe at 722. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4338 West 2nd Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Maude Fierheller 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A I Lloyd at 4330 and W S Reid at 4362. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3192 West 36th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R C Fierheller, a dentist 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L Doyle at 3176. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3424 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • M B Fierheller, a clerk at the Post Office 1940
    • Gordon M Fierheller, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: J F Piper at 3420 and Miss A Goodwin at 3442. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    914 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Fireheller (no first name printed), a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Kookery Home at 912 and Touche G A & Co at 916. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a clerk, a dentist and a fisherman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Dunbar-Southlands, Kitsilano 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 R C Fierheller, a dentist, at 718 Granville Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Maude Fierheller at 4338 West 2nd Avenue. In 1940 the directory lists R C Fierheller at 3192 West 36th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Reginald C Fierheller there as the householder, a dentist.

In 1940 the directory lists M B Fierheller at 3424 West 6th 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 lists Murray B Fierheller there as the householder, a clerk at the Post Office, with Gordon M Fierheller, a student at UBC. The 1940 name section lists Fireheller (no first name printed) at 914 West Pender Street, a fisherman.

Today

4338 West 2nd, 3192 West 36th and 3424 West 6th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 718 Granville and 914 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Fierhellers

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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.