A family name on East 2nd Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise
The Halls
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Hall at three addresses in 1940, all on East 2nd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 125 other streets too, all listed on the Hall name's own page.
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Where the Halls lived
- 1
242 East 2nd Avenue
Strathcona, 1940
- Edward C Hall 1940
- Richard Hall, a roofer for E Travis 1940
Next door in 1940: J Bordignon at 232 and J W Dalzell at 260. The block, door by door
- 2
1642 East 2nd Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- F Hall, a photographer 1940
Next door in 1940: J H Wilkes at 1636. The block, door by door
- 3
1753 East 2nd Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- W E Hall, a driver at Bowman Storage 1940
Next door in 1940: E C Davis at 1747 and Mrs R J Arnold at 1755. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a driver, a photographer and a roofer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and Strathcona. 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 Edward C Hall at 242 East 2nd Avenue, with Richard Hall, a roofer for E Travis. F Hall is listed at 1642 East 2nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frank Hall there as the householder, a photographer.
W E Hall is listed at 1753 East 2nd 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 W Edward Hall there as the householder, a driver at Bowman Storage.
Today
1642 East 2nd (1996) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 242 East 2nd and 1753 East 2nd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Hall Edw C242 East 2nd, p. 248
- Hall Richd roofer E Travis242 East 2nd, p. 248
- Hall F1642 East 2nd, p. 175
- Hall Frank photog1642 East 2nd, p. 248
- *Hall W E1753 East 2nd, p. 175
- Hall W Edw drvr Bowman Stge1753 East 2nd, p. 248
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Halls
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Hall name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.