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A family name on Fraser Street, Sunset, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Halls

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Hall at one address, 4561 Fraser Street in Riley Park, in 1940. The directories print the name on 125 other streets too, all listed on the Hall name's own page.

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The Halls at home

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).
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    4561 Fraser Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • J A Hall, a helper at Bates Valve Bag 1940
    • Emily Hall, a machinist operator at Bates Valve Bag 1940
    • Ethel Hall, a machinist operator at Bates Valve Bag 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Marshall at 4553 and I B Brockhouse at 4571. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a machinist operator (2) and a helper. Three of them worked for Bates Valve Bag.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Riley Park. 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 A Hall at 4561 Fraser Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John A Hall there as the householder, a helper at Bates Valve Bag, with Emily Hall, a machinist operator at Bates Valve Bag, and Ethel Hall, a machinist operator at Bates Valve Bag.

Today

4561 Fraser still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.

The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street
17 March 1936 The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street. Not at the house at 4561 Fraser: no archive photo of the 4500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4867. Public domain.

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

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.