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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Halcrows

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Halcrow 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 Halcrows 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

    2024 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J J Halcrow 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs I Oldroyd at 2016 and P Selnes at 2042. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3170 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Helen Halcrow, a bookkeeper at Hobbs Glass 1940

    Next door in 1940: A H Jamieson at 3160 and Miss S Stainsby at 3180. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    808 West 7th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • J Halcrow, a barber at Jake's Sanitary Barber Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: D McEachern at 802 and C Schus at 816. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a barber and a bookkeeper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Grandview-Woodland and Kitsilano. 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 J J Halcrow at 2024 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John J Halcrow there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Helen Halcrow at 3170 West 3rd Avenue, a bookkeeper at Hobbs Glass.

J Halcrow is listed at 808 West 7th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists James Halcrow there as the householder, a barber at Jake's Sanitary Barber Shop.

Today

2024 East 5th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 3170 West 3rd (1987) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 808 West 7th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Halcrows

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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.