A family name on Helmcken Street, Downtown
The Myerses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Myers at two addresses in 1940, all on Helmcken 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
540 Helmcken Street
Downtown, 1940
- Hazel O Myers, a saleswoman 1940
Next door in 1940: F Smith at 538 and E Schofield at 542. The block, door by door
- 2
757 Helmcken Street
Downtown, 1940
- Myers 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss E McConnell at 753. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a saleswoman.
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 Hazel O Myers at 540 Helmcken Street, a saleswoman. The 1940 name section lists Myers at 757 Helmcken Street.
Today
540 Helmcken still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 757 Helmcken, 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.
- Myers Hazel O slswm540 Helmcken, p. 452
- Myers757 Helmcken, 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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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.