Vancouver / Names / S / Saunders / East 21st Avenue

A family name on East 21st Avenue, Riley Park, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Saunderses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Saunders at one address, 225 East 21st Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spelling Sanders. The directories print the name on 54 other streets too, all listed on the Saunders name's own page.

Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.

The Saunderses at home

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).
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    225 East 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs J Sanders, widow of H J 1940
    • M Jean Sanders, a saleswoman at Pender Stationery & Book Store 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Freeman at 223 and A Joss at 233. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a saleswoman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Riley Park. 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

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs J Sanders at 225 East 21st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Janet Sanders there as the householder, widow of H J, with M Jean Sanders, a saleswoman at Pender Stationery & Book Store.

Today

The City no longer lists 225 East 21st, so that building is 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, street section

The book of the Saunderses

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Saunders name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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Another name, or a house

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.