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A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge

The Hansens

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Hansen at three addresses in 1940, all on West 23rd Avenue, with the close spelling Hanssen. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 52 other streets too, all listed on the Hansen name's own page.

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Where the Hansens 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

    145 West 23rd Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Ivan Hansen, a painter at Fane's Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Hammond at 139 and E Gootenko at 153. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3553 West 23rd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R Hansen, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Collett at 3547 and W J Twaites at 3559. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3590 West 23rd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C S Hansen, a clerk at the Bank of Montreal 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Miller at 3592. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a fisherman and a painter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2) 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ivan Hansen at 145 West 23rd Avenue, a painter at Fane's Ltd. R Hansen is listed at 3553 West 23rd Avenue 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). The 1940 name section lists Rasmus Hansen there as the householder, a fisherman.

C S Hansen is listed at 3590 West 23rd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Carlo S Hansen there as the householder, a clerk at the Bank of Montreal.

Today

145 West 23rd and 3590 West 23rd still have their buildings from before 1946; 3553 West 23rd (2012) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Hansens

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Hansen 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.