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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Legeers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Legeer at four addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Leger. 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 Legeers lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    674 Chilco Street

    West End, 1940

    • Abel J Leger, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Hooley at 650 and J W Harston at 676. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1375 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • J F Leger, a janitor at the St Georges Apartments 1940

    Next door in 1940: Shaughnessy Crescent at 1325 and braemar (the) at 1379. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3016 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J J Legeer, a driver at Pioneer Laundry 1940
    • Elizabeth M Legeer, a stenographer at Associated Dairies 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Hunter at 3006 and Miss W Twizell at 3036. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1765 West Broadway

    Fairview, 1940

    • Barbara Leger 1940

    Next door in 1940: Two Boys Msngr Serv at 1735 and L J La Rocque at 1775. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a driver (2), a janitor and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2), Kitsilano 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 Abel J Leger at 674 Chilco Street, a driver. J F Leger is listed at 1375 West 15th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John F Leger there as the householder, a janitor at the St Georges Apartments.

J J Legeer is listed at 3016 West 8th Avenue in 1940; 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 John J Legeer there as the householder, a driver at Pioneer Laundry, with Elizabeth M Legeer, a stenographer at Associated Dairies. The 1940 name section lists Barbara Leger at 1765 West Broadway.

Today

3016 West 8th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 674 Chilco, 1375 West 15th and 1765 West Broadway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Legeers

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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.