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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Parkviews

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Parkview at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Parkviews lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2404 Cornwall Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • By The Sea Parkview, who kept rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: W B Deaville at 2412. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6803 Doman Street

    Killarney, 1940

    • Greenhouses Parkview 1940

    Next door in 1940: A M Wheatcroft at 6809. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    218 Keefer Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Greenhouses Parkview 1940

    Next door in 1940: Shee Chan at 216 and Keefer Rooms at 222. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Killarney, Kitsilano and Strathcona. 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 By The Sea Parkview at 2404 Cornwall Avenue, who kept rooms to let. Greenhouses Parkview is listed at 6803 Doman Street in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists Greenhouses Parkview at 218 Keefer Street.

Today

The City no longer lists 2404 Cornwall, 6803 Doman and 218 Keefer, 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.
1940

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

The book of the Parkviews

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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.