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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Palmers

In the city directories 1940 · 98 addresses on 77 streets

The directories print the Palmer name at 98 addresses on 77 streets in 1940, in 19 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Palmers lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. Downtown14 addresses
  2. West End12 addresses
  3. Kitsilano10 addresses
  4. Marpole7 addresses
  5. Kensington-Cedar Cottage6 addresses
  6. Dunbar-Southlands5 addresses
  7. Fairview5 addresses
  8. Hastings-Sunrise5 addresses
  9. Mount Pleasant5 addresses
  10. Strathcona5 addresses
  11. Grandview-Woodland4 addresses
  12. Kerrisdale4 addresses
  13. Arbutus Ridge3 addresses
  14. Renfrew-Collingwood3 addresses
  15. Riley Park3 addresses
  16. Shaughnessy3 addresses
  17. West Point Grey2 addresses
  18. Oakridge1 address
  19. Sunset1 address

Where the name was printed

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  1. 1
    Granville StreetThree addresses in Downtown; three people: Math L Palmer, Mrs H G Palmer and W Palmer
    1940
  2. 2
    Nelson StreetThree addresses in West End; four people: E G Palmer, Joseph Palmer and Palmer (no first name printed), and one more
    1940
  3. 3
    West 12th AvenueThree addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; four people: W G Palmer, H A Palmer and J T E Palmer, and one more
    1940
  4. 4
    West 16th AvenueThree addresses in Arbutus Ridge and Kitsilano; three people: C S Palmer, Mrs M Palmer and E A Palmer
    1940
  5. 5
    West 7th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; four people: C E Palmer, Edward N Palmer and John E Palmer, and one more
    1940
  6. 6
    Bute StreetTwo addresses in Downtown and West End; two people: Arthur J Palmer and Elsie Palmer
    1940
  7. 7
    Comox StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: Frank E Palmer and Palmer (no first name printed)
    1940
  8. 8
    East 10th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage; two people: C E Palmer and L C Palmer
    1940
  9. 9
    John StreetTwo addresses in Riley Park; two people: G H Palmer and Mrs Vera Palmer
    1940
  10. 10
    Keefer StreetTwo addresses in Strathcona; two people: E T Palmer and C H Palmer
    1940
  11. 11
    Pacific StreetTwo addresses in West End; three people: G Palmer, H G Palmer and Vera G Palmer
    1940
  12. 12
    West 11th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; five people: G C Palmer, J H Palmer and Dorothy Palmer, and two more
    1940

65 more streets, by name: Angus Drive (1), Atlin Street (1), Balfour Avenue (1), Barclay Street (1), Bidwell Street (1), Cartier Street (1), Charles Street (1), Clark Drive (1), Cypress Street (1), Davie Street (1), Denman Street (1), Drake Street (1), Dunbar Street (1), East 11th Avenue (1), East 13th Avenue (1), East 15th Avenue (1), East 1st Avenue (1), East 22nd Avenue (1), East 35th Avenue (1), East 50th Avenue (1), East Broadway (1), East Cordova Street (1), East Hastings Street (1), Elm Street (1), Eton Street (1), Frances Street (1), Grant Street (1), Haro Street (1), Heather Street (1), Helmcken Street (1), Henry Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Lancaster Street (1), Melville Street (1), Miller Street (1), Nanaimo Street (1), Oak Street (1), Osler Street (1), Oxford Street (1), Point Grey Road (1), Prior Street (1), Robson Street (1), Rupert Street (1), Shaughnessy Street (1), Welwyn Street (1), West 14th Avenue (2), West 15th Avenue (1), West 1st Avenue (1), West 26th Avenue (1), West 30th Avenue (1), West 32nd Avenue (1), West 33rd Avenue (1), West 39th Avenue (1), West 51st Avenue (1), West 53rd Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (1), West 60th Avenue (1), West 63rd Avenue (1), West 64th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (2), West Georgia Street (2), West Hastings Street (2), Whyte Avenue (1), Woodland Drive (1), Yew Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 98 addresses, 34 still have their buildings from before 1946, one has a building standing whose year the City doesn't record, 26 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 37; each street's page names them.

The book of the Palmers

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under P. Want a name removed? Tell us.