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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hanscomes

In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address

The directories print one person named Hanscome at one address, 1144 Burrard Street in Downtown, in 1940.

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The Hanscomes at home

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).
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    1144 Burrard Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A R Hanscome 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M A Telford at 1134 and R E Withers at 1148. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Downtown. 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 A R Hanscome at 1144 Burrard Street.

Today

For 1144 Burrard, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Shriners in striped robes marching in a parade on Burrard Street
1942 Shriners in striped robes marching in a parade on Burrard Street. Not at the house at 1144 Burrard: no archive photo of the 1100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1184-1239. Public domain.

Every line as printed

The line printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The book of the Hanscomes

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Hanscome name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.