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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hasses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Hass at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Hasses at 6239 Prince Albert in 1940.

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Where the Hasses lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    285 East 39th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Doug H Hass 1940
    • Frederick J Hass, a mechanic 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss J Mennell at 279. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6239 Prince Albert Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • A Hass, an electrician contractor 1940
    • Horst E Hass, an electrician for A Hass 1940
    • Ruth E Hass, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: F W T Brown at 6229 and J B Duthie at 6251. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: an electrician, an electrician contractor and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park and Sunset. 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 Doug H Hass at 285 East 39th Avenue, with Frederick J Hass, a mechanic. A Hass, an electrician contractor, is listed at 6239 Prince Albert Street 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 Albert Hass there, an electrician contractor, with Horst E Hass, an electrician for A Hass, and Ruth E Hass, a student.

Today

285 East 39th and 6239 Prince Albert still have their buildings from before 1946.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Hasses

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.