A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Schwahns
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Schwahn at one address, 2656 Franklin Street in Hastings-Sunrise, in 1940.
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The Schwahns at home
Sunrise
- 1
2656 Franklin Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- Miss A L Schwahn 1940
- Ann L Schwahn, a seamstress at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs A Dourasoff at 2652 and Miss J J Thomson at 2662. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a seamstress.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Miss A L Schwahn at 2656 Franklin Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ann L Schwahn there as the householder, a seamstress at the Hudson's Bay Company.
Today
2656 Franklin still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Schwahn Miss A L2656 Franklin, p. 52
- Schwahn Ann L smstrs HBC2656 Franklin, p. 547
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Schwahns
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Schwahn 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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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.