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A family name on West 5th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Halls

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Hall at three addresses in 1940, all on West 5th 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 4491 West 5th 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

    1558 West 5th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • C F Hall, a vulcanizer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs I Coughlin at 1552 and H Almond at 1562. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2090 West 5th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs E M Hall, widow of T J 1940
    • Margaret L Hall, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: P M Hansen at 2088. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4491 West 5th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • A J Hall, a credit manager at International Harvester 1940
    • Albert D Hall, a stenographer 1940
    • John W G Hall, a clerk at General Insurance 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Wright at 4485 and G G Satte at 4497. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a stenographer (2), a clerk, a credit manager and a vulcanizer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Kitsilano 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 C F Hall at 1558 West 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles F Hall there as the householder, a vulcanizer. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs E M Hall at 2090 West 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Edith M Hall there as the householder, widow of T J, with Margaret L Hall, a stenographer.

In 1940 the directory lists A J Hall at 4491 West 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Albert J Hall there as the householder, a credit manager at International Harvester, with Albert D Hall, a stenographer, and John W G Hall, a clerk at General Insurance.

Today

2090 West 5th and 4491 West 5th still have their buildings from before 1946, 2090 West 5th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1558 West 5th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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.