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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Heathers

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at four addresses

The directories print seven people named Heather at four addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Heathers at 3668 Dunbar in 1940.

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Where the Heathers 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

    3644 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R A Heather, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: R A Heather at 3668. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3668 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R A Heather 1940
    • Guy Heather, a salesman for R A Heather 1940
    • Lloyd Heather, a salesman for R A Heather 1940

    Next door in 1940: R A Heather at 3644 and W H Moise at 3680. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    734 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Knitting Mills Heather 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs K MacLennan at 730 and fisher block at 736. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3408 West 38th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • V G Heather, a taxidermist for G G Heather 1940
    • A LeRoy Heather, a salesman at McLean, Rowles & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs C E Parker at 3422. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: a salesman (3) and a taxidermist. Two of them worked for R A Heather.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (3) and Mount Pleasant. 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 R A Heather, a confectioner, at 3644 Dunbar Street. R A Heather is listed at 3668 Dunbar 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Guy Heather there, a salesman for R A Heather, with Lloyd Heather, a salesman for R A Heather. Knitting Mills Heather is listed at 734 East Broadway in 1940.

In 1940 the directory lists V G Heather at 3408 West 38th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Victor G Heather there as the householder, a taxidermist for G G Heather, with A LeRoy Heather, a salesman at McLean, Rowles & Co.

Today

3668 Dunbar and 3408 West 38th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 3644 Dunbar and 734 East Broadway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows
1940 A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows. Not at the house at 3668 Dunbar: no archive photo of the 3600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.530. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Heathers

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.