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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hamblys

In the city directories 1940 · eight people at five addresses

The directories print eight people named Hambly at five addresses in 1940 in four of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Hamblys at 4354 West 13th in 1940.

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Where the Hamblys 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

    218 East 11th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Minnie E Hambley, a housekeeper for Miss A C Ridley 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Amundsen at 228. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2594 Wallace Crescent

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • K H Hambly 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Campbell at 2588. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4354 West 13th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Miss B Hambly 1940
    • Miss D Hambly, a music teacher 1940
    • Beatrice Hambly, a school teacher 1940
    • Dorothea Hambly, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: A E Crawford at 4348 and P W Bird at 4358. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    556 West 17th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • P B Hambly, a groundman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: C C Rushton at 558. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    207 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • K H Hambly, an optometrist 1940

    Next door in 1940: Clothes Shops Natl at 217. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the eight: a groundman, a housekeeper, a music teacher and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West Point Grey (2), Downtown, Mount Pleasant and South Cambie. 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 Minnie E Hambley at 218 East 11th Avenue, a housekeeper for Miss A C Ridley. K H Hambly is listed at 2594 Wallace Crescent in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark).

In 1940 the directory lists Miss D Hambly, a music teacher, at 4354 West 13th Avenue. By 1940 it is Miss B Hambly; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Beatrice Hambly there as the householder, a school teacher, with Dorothea Hambly, a music teacher.

P B Hambly is listed at 556 West 17th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Percy B Hambly there as the householder, a groundman at the BC Electric Railway. K H Hambly, an optometrist, is listed at 207 West Hastings Street in 1940.

Today

218 East 11th and 207 West Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946; 4354 West 13th (1991) and 556 West 17th (2021) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2594 Wallace Crescent, 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Hamblys

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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.