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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Severses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Severs at four addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Sievers. 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 Severses 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

    1281 Broughton Street

    West End, 1940

    • V Emily Sievers, a nurse maid for J P Nicolls 1940

    Next door in 1940: A B Macdonald at 1255. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    125 East 55th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • C H B Sievers, a foreman at the Central Sheet Metal Works 1940
    • Edith M Sievers, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: J B Mayville at 135. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    504 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • H S Severs, an apprentice at the Canadian Sumner Iron Works 1940

    Next door in 1940: West Coast Trading at 502 and R Hoshino at 508. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1816 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • Severs, widow of A D 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Clark at 1834. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: an apprentice, a foreman, a nurse and a nurse maid. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2), Strathcona and Sunset. 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 V Emily Sievers at 1281 Broughton Street, a nurse maid for J P Nicolls. C H B Sievers is listed at 125 East 55th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Charles H B Sievers there as the householder, a foreman at the Central Sheet Metal Works, with Edith M Sievers, a nurse.

H S Severs is listed at 504 East Hastings Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harry S Severs there as the householder, a machinist, with Harry S Severs Jr, an apprentice at the Canadian Sumner Iron Works. The 1940 name section lists Severs at 1816 Haro Street, widow of A D.

Today

125 East 55th and 504 East Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946; 1281 Broughton (1959) and 1816 Haro (1974) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Severses

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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.