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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Lances

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Lance at four 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 Lances 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

    1236 Bidwell Street

    West End, 1940

    • H A Lance, a manager at Lance Litho 1940

    Next door in 1940: G W Smith at 1232 and Mrs M Szekely at 1250. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2075 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Nye L Lance, retired 1940
  3. 3

    2355 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • N J Lance 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A F Fuller at 2345 and Miss A A Guichon at 2365. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    985 West Broadway

    Fairview, 1940

    • Ernest J Lance, a millworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Kate Greenaway at 981 and W M Gerow at 995. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a manager and a millworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2), Fairview and Kitsilano. 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 A Lance at 1236 Bidwell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Hugh A Lance there as the householder, a manager at Lance Litho. The 1940 name section lists Nye L Lance at 2075 Nelson Street as the householder, retired. N J Lance is listed at 2355 West 3rd Avenue in 1940.

The 1940 name section lists Ernest J Lance at 985 West Broadway, a millworker.

Today

1236 Bidwell (1976) and 2355 West 3rd (1958) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2075 Nelson and 985 West Broadway, so those buildings are 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, street section

The book of the Lances

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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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.