A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Mayfields
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Mayfield at one address, 3974 Gladstone Street in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940.
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The Mayfields at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
3974 Gladstone Street
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- E Mayfield, a stockkeeper for Cunningham Trapp 1940
- Gerald E Mayfield, a salesman for G H Cottrell 1940
Next door in 1940: A W Bradbeer at 3958 and A Hamilton at 3990. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a salesman and a stockkeeper.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 E Mayfield at 3974 Gladstone Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Eric Mayfield there as the householder, a stockkeeper for Cunningham Trapp, with Gerald E Mayfield, a salesman for G H Cottrell.
Today
3974 Gladstone still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Mayfield E3974 Gladstone, p. 59
- Mayfield Eric stockkpr Cunningham Trapp3974 Gladstone, p. 423
- Mayfield Gerald E slsmn G H Cottrell3974 Gladstone, p. 423
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Mayfields
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Mayfield 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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.