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A family name on West 14th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Palmers

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Palmer at two addresses in 1940, all on West 14th Avenue. 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 76 other streets too, all listed on the Palmer name's own page.

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Where the Palmers 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

    1736 West 14th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Robert N Palmer, a 3rd officer at the BC Coast Steamship Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: R S Hudson at 1726 and J W Hislop at 1746. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2708 West 14th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C Palmer, a patrol sergeant at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Robert Palmer, a warehouseman for Kelly Douglas 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Macdonald at 2704 and C Gardner at 2724. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a patrol sergeant and a warehouseman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and Kitsilano. 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 Robert N Palmer at 1736 West 14th Avenue, a 3rd officer at the BC Coast Steamship Service. C Palmer is listed at 2708 West 14th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Charles Palmer there as the householder, a patrol sergeant at the City of Vancouver, with Robert Palmer, a warehouseman for Kelly Douglas.

Today

2708 West 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1929 by the City's record; 1736 West 14th (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Palmers

Every directory, as one book

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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 P. Want a name removed? Tell us.