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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Keillars

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Keillar 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. The most under one roof: four Keillars at 379 East 51st in 1940.

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Where the Keillars 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

    2615 Ash Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • Nellie Kellar, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs R McAllister at 2601. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1155 Bidwell Street

    West End, 1940

    • James A Kellar 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E O'Brien at 1153 and A L Berglof at 1175. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    379 East 51st Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Miss J E Keillar 1940
    • Jean E Keillar, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
    • James Keillar, retired 1940
    • S Beatrice Keillar, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Anderson at 343 and A F Clarke at 387. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a nurse (2) and an operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Sunset 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 Nellie Kellar at 2615 Ash Street, a nurse. The 1940 name section lists James A Kellar at 1155 Bidwell Street. In 1940 the directory lists Miss J E Keillar at 379 East 51st 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 Jean E Keillar there as the householder, an operator at the BC Telephone, with James Keillar, retired, and S Beatrice Keillar, a nurse.

Today

2615 Ash (1989), 1155 Bidwell (1968) and 379 East 51st (2010) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Keillars

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Keillar 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 K. Want a name removed? Tell us.