A family name on Burrard Street, Downtown, West End, Fairview and Kitsilano
The Myerses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Myers at two addresses in 1940, all on Burrard Street, with the close spellings Meyers and Mayers. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 44 other streets too, all listed on the Myers name's own page.
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Where the Myerses lived
- 1
1101 Burrard Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs Edwina Meyers, a maid at the St Pauls Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: C McKillop at 1143. The block, door by door
- 2
1186 Burrard Street
Downtown, 1940
- Albert B Myers, a fur operator at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
- Clinton Myers, an apprentice at Cunningham Drug 1940
Next door in 1940: G Y Spring at 1176 and P J Wybourne at 1188. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: an apprentice, a fur operator and a maid.
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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Edwina Meyers at 1101 Burrard Street, a maid at the St Pauls Hospital. The 1940 name section lists Albert B Myers at 1186 Burrard Street, a fur operator at the Hudson's Bay Company, with Clinton Myers, an apprentice at Cunningham Drug.
Today
The City no longer lists 1101 Burrard and 1186 Burrard, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Meyers Mrs Edwina maid St Pauls Hosp1101 Burrard, p. 427
- Myers Albert B fur opr HBC1186 Burrard, p. 451
- Myers Clinton appr Cunningham Drug1186 Burrard, p. 451
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Myerses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Myers 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.