A family name on Robson Street, West End and Downtown
The Hunters
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Hunter at two addresses in 1940, all on Robson 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 118 other streets too, all listed on the Hunter name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
Where the Hunters lived
- 1
611 Robson Street
Downtown, 1940
- Patrick Hunter 1940
Next door in 1940: C Hope at 609 and Van Tamale Parlor at 615. The block, door by door
- 2
655 Robson Street
Downtown, 1940
- Hunter (no first name printed) 1940
- Mrs C M Hunter, a nurse at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home 1940
Next door in 1940: York Cafe at 619. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a nurse.
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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Patrick Hunter at 611 Robson Street. The 1940 name section lists Hunter (no first name printed) at 655 Robson Street, with Mrs C M Hunter, a nurse at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home.
Today
The City no longer lists 611 Robson and 655 Robson, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Hunter Patk611 Robson, p. 290
- Hunter Mrs —655 Robson, p. 289
- Hunter Mrs C M nurse Florence Nightingale Nursing Home655 Robson, p. 289
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Hunters
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Hunter 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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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.