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A family name on West 2nd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Halls

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Hall at four addresses in 1940, all on West 2nd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Halls at 4585 West 2nd 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

    2693 West 2nd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • F C Hall, a barrister 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J Patterson at 2667 and J W Oakes at 2695. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3116 West 2nd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Beverley W Hall 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C E Sampson at 3110 and A J Tremblay at 3124. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3356 West 2nd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Frederick J Hall 1940

    Next door in 1940: A H Hyslop at 3350 and Mrs G Wright at 3362. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4585 West 2nd Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • T R Hall, a teacher at the Provincial Normal School 1940
    • Barbara McC Hall, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1940
    • H Ken Hall, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: J P O'Sullivan at 4579. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a barrister, a clerk and a teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (3) and West Point Grey. 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 F C Hall at 2693 West 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Francis C Hall there as the householder, a barrister. The 1940 name section lists Beverley W Hall at 3116 West 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Frederick J Hall at 3356 West 2nd Avenue.

In 1940 the directory lists T R Hall at 4585 West 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists T Roy Hall there as the householder, a teacher at the Provincial Normal School, with Barbara McC Hall, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and H Ken Hall, a student at UBC.

Today

2693 West 2nd, 3116 West 2nd, 3356 West 2nd and 4585 West 2nd still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.