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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Flanderses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Flanders 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 Flanderses 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

    1291 Davie Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Jean Flanders 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D M Yewdall at 1287. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2658 East 28th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • R W Flanders, of J J Flanders 1940

    Next door in 1940: G W Oswald at 2648 and J Penrice at 2664. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1356 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J J Flanders, a transfer 1940
    • L Evelyn Flanders, a clerk at Woodward's 1940
  4. 4

    3228 West 26th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C A Flanders, a department manager at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: T C Allan at 3222 and N Kagnoff at 3236. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a clerk, a department manager and a transfer. Two of them worked for Woodward's.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Grandview-Woodland, Renfrew-Collingwood and West End. 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 Mrs Jean Flanders at 1291 Davie Street. R W Flanders is listed at 2658 East 28th Avenue in 1940; 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 Reid W Flanders there as the householder, of J J Flanders.

J J Flanders, a transfer, is listed at 1356 East Pender Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists John J Flanders there, a transfer, with L Evelyn Flanders, a clerk at Woodward's. C A Flanders is listed at 3228 West 26th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Charles A Flanders there as the householder, a department manager at Woodward's.

Today

3228 West 26th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1939 by the City's record; 2658 East 28th (2015) and 1356 East Pender (1960) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1291 Davie, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 1356 East Pender: no archive photo of the 1300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Flanderses

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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.