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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Horsfields

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Horsfield at three 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 Horsfields 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

    2634 Cypress Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Sarah Horsefield, a widow 1940

    Next door in 1940: Home for Girls Lutheran at 2616 and G W Nash at 2646. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    531 East 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • G E Horsfield, a police officer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: C H Miller at 525 and E T Dawe at 551. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1391 West 7th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Harry Horsfield, a cleaner at French Hand Laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Crompton at 1387 and A Pearson at 1399. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a cleaner and a police officer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. 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 Sarah Horsefield at 2634 Cypress Street, a widow. G E Horsfield is listed at 531 East 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Gordon E Horsfield there as the householder, a police officer at the City of Vancouver. The 1940 name section lists Harry Horsfield at 1391 West 7th Avenue, a cleaner at French Hand Laundry.

Today

2634 Cypress and 1391 West 7th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 531 East 6th, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Horsfields

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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.