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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Lovatts

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Lovatt 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 Lovatts 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

    436 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • William Lovatt 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Mortimer at 430 and “Orientals” at 442. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    336 Robson Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A V Lovatt, a salesman 1940
    • Albert J Lovatt, a green chainman at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Dorn at 334 and J C Cleghorn at 340. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3328 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • J H Lovatt, a waiter at the Empire Hotel Beer Parlor 1940
    • James K Lovatt, a pressman at Great West Litho 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Fisher at 3302 and C O Ross at 3336. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1152 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • House (Mrs M Welsh) Lovat, who kept rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: T K Bulley at 1138 and Van Auto Towing at 1160. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a green chainman, a pressman, a salesman and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Kitsilano and Strathcona. 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 William Lovatt at 436 East Hastings Street. A V Lovatt is listed at 336 Robson Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Albert V Lovatt there as the householder, a salesman, with Albert J Lovatt, a green chainman at Canadian White Pine.

J H Lovatt is listed at 3328 West 13th 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 James H Lovatt there as the householder, a waiter at the Empire Hotel Beer Parlor, with James K Lovatt, a pressman at Great West Litho. The 1940 name section lists House (Mrs M Welsh) Lovat at 1152 West Hastings Street, who kept rooms to let.

Today

336 Robson (1998) and 3328 West 13th (2017) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1152 West Hastings, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 436 East Hastings, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Lovatts

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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.