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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hahns

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Hahn at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Hahns 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

    1036 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Miss H B Hahn 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Nixon at 1032 and A N Bond at 1040. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    658 East 56th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Bertha Hahn, widow of F 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Goltz at 650 and A Ginter at 666. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4907 Walden Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • M Hahn, a gardener 1940

    Next door in 1940: E H Smith at 4931. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a gardener. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park, Sunset 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

In 1940 the directory lists Miss H B Hahn at 1036 Barclay Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Bertha Hahn at 658 East 56th Avenue, widow of F. In 1940 the directory lists M Hahn at 4907 Walden 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 lists Martin Hahn there as the householder, a gardener.

Today

4907 Walden still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; 658 East 56th (2000) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1036 Barclay, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.