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A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The Fletchers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Fletcher at two addresses in 1940, all on West 23rd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Fletchers at 261 West 23rd in 1940. The directories print the name on 74 other streets too, all listed on the Fletcher name's own page.

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Where the Fletchers 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

    261 West 23rd Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • G A Fletcher, a circulation at the Sun 1940
    • Mrs Beth Fletcher, proprietor of Beth's Beauty Shoppe 1940
    • Morley A Fletcher, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Stewart at 249 and R H Leaney at 275. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    352 West 23rd Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • T B Fletcher, an engineer at the Grace Hospital 1940
    • Leonard W Fletcher, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: G H Downton at 342 and E L Grisdale at 362. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a circulation, an engineer, a proprietor and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2). 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 G A Fletcher at 261 West 23rd 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 Garnet A Fletcher there as the householder, a circulation at the Sun, with Mrs Beth Fletcher, proprietor of Beth's Beauty Shoppe, and Morley A Fletcher, retired. In 1940 the directory lists T B Fletcher at 352 West 23rd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Thomas B Fletcher there as the householder, an engineer at the Grace Hospital, with Leonard W Fletcher, a salesman.

Today

261 West 23rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1937 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 352 West 23rd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Fletchers

Every directory, as one book

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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.