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A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Hills

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Hill at four addresses in 1940, all on West 1st Avenue. 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 Hills at 2703 West 1st in 1940. 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

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

    2035 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Ella H Hill, widow of E 1940

    Next door in 1940: S W Greenwood at 2033. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2625 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C W Hill, who worked for the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Palmer at 2609 and W B Emery at 2631. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2703 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H T Hill, a salesman at Rorison McBeath Insurance 1940
    • Arthur W T Hill, a clerk for A E Jukes 1940
    • Montague H T Hill, a manager at Pro Made Golf Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: F B C Hilton at 2701 and J Crerar at 2705. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4598 West 1st Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • E J Hill, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: P G Hume at 4588. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a clerk (2), an employee, a manager and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (3) and West Point Grey. 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 Ella H Hill at 2035 West 1st Avenue, widow of E. C W Hill is listed at 2625 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Cecil W Hill there as the householder, who worked for the BC Telephone.

H T Hill is listed at 2703 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists H Temple Hill there as the householder, a salesman at Rorison McBeath Insurance, with Arthur W T Hill, a clerk for A E Jukes, and Montague H T Hill, a manager at Pro Made Golf Co. E J Hill is listed at 4598 West 1st 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 Ernest J Hill there as the householder, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

2703 West 1st and 4598 West 1st still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2035 West 1st and 2625 West 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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 Hills

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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.