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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Sheffields

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Sheffield 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. The most under one roof: three Sheffields at 4593 West 12th in 1940.

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Where the Sheffields 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

    951 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Shofield, a gardener 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Vance at 947. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4593 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Mrs D G Sheffield, widow of P H 1940
    • James O Sheffield, a student at UBC 1940
    • Rhoda L Sheffield, a secretary at the Provincial Normal School 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J Tonks at 4583. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a gardener and a secretary. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and West Point Grey. 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 Shofield at 951 Richards Street, a gardener. Mrs D G Sheffield is listed at 4593 West 12th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Delia G Sheffield there as the householder, widow of P H, with James O Sheffield, a student at UBC, and Rhoda L Sheffield, a secretary at the Provincial Normal School.

Today

4593 West 12th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1936 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 951 Richards, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Sheffields

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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.