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A family name on West 8th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Halls

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Hall at three addresses in 1940, all on West 8th 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: five Halls at 2116 West 8th 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

    705 West 8th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Florence Hall 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Orr at 715. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2116 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs N C Hall, widow of J 1940
    • Edward J Hall, a mechanic at J M Brown Motor 1940
    • Kathleen F Hall, a waitress at Melrose Farm Dairy 1940
    • May E A Hall, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
    • Thurza Hall, a clerk at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs N Graham at 2112 and W A Turner at 2126. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3141 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • E R Hall, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Burns at 3137 and C F Blakeman at 3145. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a clerk, a manufacturers agent, a mechanic, a saleswoman and a waitress. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2) and Fairview. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Florence Hall at 705 West 8th Avenue. Mrs N C Hall is listed at 2116 West 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists N Constance Hall there as the householder, widow of J, with Edward J Hall, a mechanic at J M Brown Motor, Kathleen F Hall, a waitress at Melrose Farm Dairy, May E A Hall, a saleswoman at Woodward's, and Thurza Hall, a clerk at the Vancouver General Hospital.

E R Hall is listed at 3141 West 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists E Reginald Hall there as the householder, a manufacturers agent.

Today

3141 West 8th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 705 West 8th and 2116 West 8th, so those buildings are 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.