A family name on West Georgia Street, Downtown and West End
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 West Georgia 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
535 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- V R Hill, a barrister 1940
Next door in 1940: Sales Addressograph-Multigraph at 525 and J E Baldwin at 541. The block, door by door
- 2
925 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- J F Hill, a dentist 1940
Next door in 1940: Lunch Sandwich at 915 and Macdonald's Prescriptions at 929. The block, door by door
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (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
In 1940 the directory lists V R Hill, a barrister, at 535 West Georgia Street. J F Hill, a dentist, is listed at 925 West Georgia Street in 1940.
Today
The City no longer lists 535 West Georgia and 925 West Georgia, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Hill V R barr535 West Georgia, p. 56
- Hill J F dentist925 West Georgia, p. 58
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.