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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Luceys

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Lucey at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Luceys 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

    4557 West 4th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Mrs L J Lucey 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Thompson at 4545 and J Gibson at 4571. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    900 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss E Lucey, a maid at the Vancouver Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Wilson W & J at 920. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and West Point Grey. 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 Mrs L J Lucey at 4557 West 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Lillian J Lucey there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Miss E Lucey at 900 West Georgia Street, a maid at the Vancouver Hotel.

Today

4557 West 4th and 900 West Georgia still have their buildings from before 1946, 900 West Georgia on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Luceys

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Lucey 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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.