A family name on Jervis Street, West End and Downtown
The Hills
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Hill at two addresses in 1940, all on Jervis Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 106 other streets too, all listed on the Hill name's own page.
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Where the Hills lived
- 1
876 Jervis Street
West End, 1940
- Elsie M Hill, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs L Cochrane at 836. The block, door by door
- 2
960 Jervis Street
West End, 1940
- S E Hill, a manager at the Winchester Apartments 1940
Next door in 1940: Annex Rosemont at 948. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a manager and a saleswoman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (2). 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 Elsie M Hill at 876 Jervis Street, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company. S E Hill is listed at 960 Jervis Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Sam E Hill there as the householder, a manager at the Winchester Apartments.
Today
The City no longer lists 876 Jervis and 960 Jervis, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Hill Elsie M slswm HBC876 Jervis, p. 272
- Hill S E960 Jervis, p. 91
- Hill Sam E mgr Winchester Apts960 Jervis, p. 273
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Hills
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Hill 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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Another name, or a house
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.