A family name on East 38th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Howards
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Howard at two addresses in 1940, all on East 38th Avenue. 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 53 other streets too, all listed on the Howard name's own page.
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Where the Howards lived
- 1
441 East 38th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- H V Howard, a bookkeeper 1940
Next door in 1940: W V Scott at 431 and J A Gordon at 445. The block, door by door
- 2
811 East 38th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- F St C Howard, of Bell-Craft 1940
- Margaret I Howard, a stenographer at Bell-Craft 1940
Next door in 1940: F R Davies at 803 and A Quin at 841. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a bookkeeper and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park. 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 H V Howard at 441 East 38th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Hedley V Howard there as the householder, a bookkeeper, with H Howard, a mailer at the Province. In 1940 the directory lists F St C Howard at 811 East 38th Avenue; 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 Frank St C Howard there as the householder, of Bell-Craft, with Margaret I Howard, a stenographer at Bell-Craft.
Today
811 East 38th (1999) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 441 East 38th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Howard H V441 East 38th, p. 254
- Howard H mailer Province441 East 38th, p. 284
- Howard Hedley V bkpr441 East 38th, p. 284
- *Howard F St C811 East 38th, p. 254
- Howard Frank St C of Bell-Craft811 East 38th, p. 284
- Howard Margt I sten Bell-Craft811 East 38th, p. 284
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Howards
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Howard 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.