A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Meltzers
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Meltzer at one address, 1116 Pendrell Street in West End, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Meltzers at home
- 1
1116 Pendrell Street
West End, 1940
- N Meltzer, a cattle buyer 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss F Ward-Wreford at 1114 and V Benn at 1118. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a cattle buyer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists N Meltzer at 1116 Pendrell Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Nathaniel Meltzer there as the householder, a cattle buyer.
Today
1116 Pendrell (1976) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Meltzer N1116 Pendrell, p. 132
- Meltzer Nathl cattle buyer1116 Pendrell, p. 424
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Meltzers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Meltzer 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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Another name, or a house
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.