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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Sartains

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Sartain 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 Sartains 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

    1447 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Sartain (no first name printed), an artist 1940

    Next door in 1940: Marlyn (The) at 1433 and G W Weeks at 1459. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    824 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W A Sartain, a plasterer 1940
    • Doug Sartain, a clerk at the Princess Pat Tea Rooms 1940

    Next door in 1940: C W Walker at 816 and W E Perry at 830. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1839 Main Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W A Sartain, a plasterer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dealer Fair at 1837 and J D Helliar at 1841. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a plasterer (2), an artist and a clerk.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and West End. 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 Sartain (no first name printed) at 1447 Barclay Street, an artist. W A Sartain is listed at 824 East 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William A Sartain there as the householder, a plasterer, with Doug Sartain, a clerk at the Princess Pat Tea Rooms.

W A Sartain is listed at 1839 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William A Sartain there as the householder, a plasterer.

Today

1447 Barclay and 824 East 12th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1447 Barclay on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1839 Main, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Sartains

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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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.