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A family name on Harwood Street, West End

The Halls

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Hall at two addresses in 1940, all on Harwood Street. 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: five Halls at 1430 Harwood 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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Where the Halls 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

    1430 Harwood Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs E Hall, widow of D B 1940
    • Bertha M Hall, a designer 1940
    • Elizabeth E Hall, a milliner 1940
    • Llaine Hall, a milliner 1940
    • Margaret E Hall, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: S A Moore at 1420 and H G Allison at 1436. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1637 Harwood Street

    West End, 1940

    • Millicent G Hall, a saleswoman at Saba Bros 1940

    Next door in 1940: H J Waldron at 1629 and J Kennedy at 1661. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a milliner (2), a clerk, a designer and a saleswoman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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 Mrs E Hall at 1430 Harwood 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Emily Hall there as the householder, widow of D B, with Bertha M Hall, a designer, Elizabeth E Hall, a milliner, Llaine Hall, a milliner, and Margaret E Hall, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists Millicent G Hall at 1637 Harwood Street, a saleswoman at Saba Bros.

Today

The City no longer lists 1430 Harwood and 1637 Harwood, so those buildings are 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 Halls

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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.