A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Heathorns
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Heathorn 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.
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Where the Heathorns lived
- 1
1060 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- Harold D Heathorn, a fire captain at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: Balderston Motors (used cars) at 1056 and Dom Furn Chain Stores at 1062. The block, door by door
- 2
835 West 13th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Mrs P C Heathorn, widow of A 1940
- Jeanette M Heathorn, a police matron at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: G Trainor at 825 and D K McLellan at 845. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a fire captain and a police matron. Two of them worked for Vancouver City. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown and Fairview. 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 Harold D Heathorn at 1060 Granville Street, a fire captain at the City of Vancouver. Mrs P C Heathorn is listed at 835 West 13th 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 Priscilla C Heathorn there as the householder, widow of A, with Jeanette M Heathorn, a police matron at the City of Vancouver.
Today
1060 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 835 West 13th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Heathorn Harold D fire capt Van City1060 Granville, p. 264
- *Heathorn Mrs P C835 West 13th, p. 211
- Heathorn Jeanette M police matron Van City835 West 13th, p. 264
- Heathorn Priscilla C wid A835 West 13th, p. 264
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Heathorns
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Heathorn 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.