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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Humberstones

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Humberstone 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 Humberstones 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

    1053 Beach Avenue

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs May E Humberstone 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E M Carpenter at 1051 and Mrs C P Travis at 1065. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1525 West 29th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Victoria D Humberstone, a maid for A S Gentles 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs V W Wright at 1541. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3512 West 32nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W A Humberstone, a manager at the Lake of the Woods Milling 1940
    • Robert J Humberstone, a messenger at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: E C Chapman at 3524. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a maid, a manager and a messenger.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and West End. 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 Mrs May E Humberstone at 1053 Beach Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Victoria D Humberstone at 1525 West 29th Avenue, a maid for A S Gentles. In 1940 the directory lists W A Humberstone at 3512 West 32nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists William A Humberstone there as the householder, a manager at the Lake of the Woods Milling, with Robert J Humberstone, a messenger at the CPR.

Today

1525 West 29th and 3512 West 32nd still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1053 Beach, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Humberstones

Every directory, as one book

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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.