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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Prettes

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Prette at two addresses in 1940 in Kitsilano. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Prettes 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

    2155 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • B Hazel Prette, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: D B Forster at 2149 and R Linton at 2157. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2141 Yew Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • F Prette, a swamper 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Henderson at 2139 and Hughes Gro & Conf at 2143. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a stenographer and a swamper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (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 B Hazel Prette at 2155 West 7th Avenue, a stenographer. F Prette is listed at 2141 Yew Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Prette there as the householder, a swamper.

Today

2155 West 7th (1965) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2141 Yew, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park
About 1910 Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park. Not at the house at 2141 Yew: no archive photo of the 2100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1376-80.43. 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Prettes

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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.