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

The Hamiltons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Hamilton at two addresses in 1940, all on Commercial Drive. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 98 other streets too, all listed on the Hamilton name's own page.

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Where the Hamiltons 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

    1238 Commercial Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • H Hamilton, rooms to let 1940
    • Mrs C Hamilton, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: View Shoppe Park at 1206 and Miss S Lachance at 1240. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1618 Commercial Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • F N Hamilton, a plumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Echo Highland at 1616 and cozy corner apts at 1620. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 Mrs C Hamilton, a confectioner, at 1238 Commercial Drive. By 1940 it is H Hamilton, rooms to let. In 1940 the directory lists F N Hamilton, a plumber, at 1618 Commercial Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists F. N. Hamilton there.

Today

The City no longer lists 1238 Commercial Drive and 1618 Commercial Drive, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

The staff of Duke's Grocery in their aprons and coats outside the store at 1588 Commercial Drive
1920 The staff of Duke's Grocery in their aprons and coats outside the store at 1588 Commercial Drive. Not at the house at 1238 Commercial Drive: no archive photo of the 1200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99 - 3274. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Hamiltons

Every directory, as one book

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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.