A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Medicals
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Medical at two addresses in 1940 in Downtown. 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 Medicals lived
- 1
710 Seymour Street
Downtown, 1940
- Clinic Medical, a physician 1940
Next door in 1940: Beauty Shoppe Willingdon at 706 and Sylvia's Ltd at 712. The block, door by door
- 2
510 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Services Branch Clinic Dr A S Simpson Medical, a medical officer 1940
Next door in 1940: Can Bk of Commerce at 508 and Ziegler's Coffee Shop at 512. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a medical officer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (2). 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 Clinic Medical, a physician, at 710 Seymour Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Services Branch Clinic Dr A S Simpson Medical at 510 West Hastings Street, a medical officer.
Today
510 West Hastings still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 710 Seymour, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Medical Clinic phys710 Seymour, p. 150
- Medical Services Branch Clinic Dr A S Simpson med offcr510 West Hastings, p. 67
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Medicals
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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.