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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hemmings

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Hemming at four addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Hemmings 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

    1601 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Frances Hemming, widow of H 1940
    • Joseph A Hemming, of A & A Roofing Sales & Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: M E Campbell at 1609. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    175 East 15th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C C Hemming, a salesman at Dunlop Tire & Rubber 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Bond at 145. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    236 West 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Arthur Hemming, an apprentice at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M McCuaig at 224. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1154 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Margaret R Hemming, a clerk at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: W K Beech at 1150 and Mrs M A Flower at 1156. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: an apprentice, a clerk and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2), Fairview and West End. 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 Frances Hemming at 1601 Comox Street, widow of H, with Joseph A Hemming, of A & A Roofing Sales & Service. C C Hemming is listed at 175 East 15th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Cecil C Hemming there as the householder, a salesman at Dunlop Tire & Rubber. The 1940 name section lists Arthur Hemming at 236 West 12th Avenue, an apprentice at the BC Electric Railway.

The 1940 name section lists Margaret R Hemming at 1154 West 12th Avenue, a clerk at Spencer's.

Today

1601 Comox and 236 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1601 Comox on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 175 East 15th and 1154 West 12th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees
1925 Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees. Not at the house at 1601 Comox: no archive photo of the 1600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

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 Hemmings

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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.