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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Schiedels

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Schiedel at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. 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 Schiedels 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

    731 West 16th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • I Schiedel, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Marjorie M Schiedel, a domestic 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Slakov at 729 and Mrs G A Fryer at 735. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2128 West 36th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • E J Schiedel, a branch manager at the Bank of Montreal 1940
    • Ian H Schiedel, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss E Dodson at 2116 and A W Boggs at 2138. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a branch manager, a domestic and a motorman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and South Cambie. 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 I Schiedel at 731 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Irvin Schiedel there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, with Marjorie M Schiedel, a domestic. In 1940 the directory lists E J Schiedel at 2128 West 36th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Elmer J Schiedel there as the householder, a branch manager at the Bank of Montreal, with Ian H Schiedel, a student at UBC.

Today

2128 West 36th (2014) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 731 West 16th, 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, street section

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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.