A family name on East 32nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park
The Metcalfes
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Metcalfe at one address, 349 East 32nd Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spelling Metcalf. The directories print the name on 42 other streets too, all listed on the Metcalfe name's own page.
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The Metcalfes at home
- 1
349 East 32nd Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- E Metcalfe, a dairyman at Associated Dairies 1940
Next door in 1940: P Ross at 335 and W E V Solloway at 365. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a dairyman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 Metcalfe at 349 East 32nd Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Ernest Metcalfe there as the householder, a dairyman at Associated Dairies.
Today
349 East 32nd (1970) 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.
- *Metcalfe E349 East 32nd, p. 247
- Metcalfe Ernest dairymn Assoc Dairies349 East 32nd, p. 427
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Metcalfes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Metcalfe 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.