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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Senfts

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Senft 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 Senfts 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

    1017 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • H R Senft, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Rintoul at 1015 and G Lakin at 1019. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1839 Main Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • D Senft 1940

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

  3. 3

    1623 West 4th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • D Senft, a laborer at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: Watch Tower Bible Soc at 1619 and W Howey at 1627. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a driver and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Fairview. 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 H R Senft at 1017 East Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Henry R Senft there as the householder, a driver. In 1940 the directory lists D Senft at 1839 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists D Senft there as the householder.

In 1940 the directory lists D Senft at 1623 West 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Daniel Senft there as the householder, a laborer at Canadian White Pine.

Today

The City no longer lists 1017 East Broadway, 1839 Main and 1623 West 4th, so those buildings are 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.