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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hammels

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Hammel at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Hammell. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Hammels 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

    4381 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • G Hammel, a maid for M J McIntyre 1940
    • Clara Hammel, a maid for W M McCloy 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Livingstone at 4373 and W Bullard at 4389. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2035 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs H Hammell, a laundress at Pioneer Laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: S W Greenwood at 2033. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a maid (2) and a laundress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano and Riley Park. 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 G Hammel at 4381 Quebec Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George Hammel there as the householder, a meat cutter, with Gertrude Hammel, a maid for M J McIntyre, and Clara Hammel, a maid for W M McCloy. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs H Hammell at 2035 West 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Helen Hammell there as the householder, a laundress at Pioneer Laundry.

Today

4381 Quebec still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2035 West 1st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 4381 Quebec: no archive photo of the 4300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 6 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.