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A family name on Victoria Drive, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Grandview-Woodland and Victoria-Fraserview

The Halls

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Hall at one address, 2834 Victoria Drive in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 125 other streets too, all listed on the Hall name's own page.

Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.

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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    2834 Victoria Drive

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • M Hall, a clerk at M-W Ltd 1940
    • Eileen C Hall, a saleswoman at Spencer's 1940
    • Robert P Hall, a bookkeeper at the Automotive Radio Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs R Boletta at 2828. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a bookkeeper, a clerk and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 M Hall at 2834 Victoria Drive; 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 Math Hall there as the householder, a carpenter, with Math J Hall, a clerk at M-W Ltd, Eileen C Hall, a saleswoman at Spencer's, and Robert P Hall, a bookkeeper at the Automotive Radio Service.

Today

2834 Victoria Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.

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 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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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.