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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Needlers

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Needler at three addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Needlers lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3355 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • J E Needler, a woodworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Rex Tire Shop at 3353. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2965 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • James E Needler, a woodworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: E A Wood at 2955 and E Yuill at 2973. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2172 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Neil R E N Needler, a meat cutter at O K Stores 1940

    Next door in 1940: H S Fox at 2166 and C N Addison at 2176. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a meat cutter and a woodworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2) and 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 J E Needler, a woodworker, at 3355 Main Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James E Needler at 2965 West 13th Avenue, a woodworker. The 1940 name section lists Neil R E N Needler at 2172 West 7th Avenue, a meat cutter at O K Stores.

Today

2965 West 13th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3355 Main and 2172 West 7th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 3355 Main: no archive photo of the 3300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Needlers

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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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.