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A family name on Yew Street, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale

The Lawrences

In the city directories 1935–1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Lawrence at two addresses between 1935 and 1940, all on Yew 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 57 other streets too, all listed on the Lawrence name's own page.

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Where the Lawrences 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

    2311 Yew Street

    Kitsilano, 1935

    • C H Lawrence 1935

    Next door in 1935: C R Proctor at 2321. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6559 Yew Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • W H Lawrence, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Holmes at 6519 and C D MacKenzie at 6573. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a longshoreman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale 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 1935 the directory lists C H Lawrence at 2311 Yew Street; the 1935 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). W H Lawrence is listed at 6559 Yew Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William H Lawrence there as the householder, a chef at the CPR, with William H Lawrence Jr, a longshoreman.

Today

2311 Yew and 6559 Yew still have their buildings from before 1946.

Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park
About 1910 Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park. Not at the house at 6559 Yew: no archive photo of the 6500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1376-80.43. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1935

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Lawrences

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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.