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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hyatts

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at five addresses

The directories print seven people named Hyatt at five addresses in 1940 in four 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 Hyatts 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

    1158 Burrard Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • M Hyatt, an interior decorator 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Paterson at 1156 and Mrs B Flynn at 1160. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4625 Connaught Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • G. C Hyatt, a financial agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: A E Howard at 4607 and J L Trumbull at 4641. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3709 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs J Hyatt, widow of G 1940
    • Esther M Hyatt, a stenographer at Bekins 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Urata at 3707 and Ann's Beauty Parlor at 3711. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1352 West 59th Avenue

    Marpole, 1940

    • W S Hyatt, a machinist at Boeings 1940
    • Frederick T Hyatt, a machinist 1940

    Next door in 1940: J S Tait at 1346. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    789 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • G C Hyatt, a financial agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lunch Natl at 737. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a machinist (2), a financial agent, an interior decorator and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Marpole, Riley Park and Shaughnessy. 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 M Hyatt at 1158 Burrard Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Maurice Hyatt there as the householder, an interior decorator. In 1940 the directory lists G. C Hyatt at 4625 Connaught Drive; 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 Glen C Hyatt there as the householder, a financial agent.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs J Hyatt at 3709 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists Jennie Hyatt there as the householder, widow of G, with Esther M Hyatt, a stenographer at Bekins. In 1940 the directory lists W S Hyatt at 1352 West 59th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists William S Hyatt there as the householder, a machinist at Boeings, with Frederick T Hyatt, a machinist.

In 1940 the directory lists G C Hyatt, a financial agent, at 789 West Pender Street.

Today

4625 Connaught Drive, 3709 Main and 789 West Pender still have their buildings from before 1946, 789 West Pender on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 1352 West 59th (2007) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1158 Burrard, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 3709 Main: no archive photo of the 3700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 11 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.