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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Sleeths

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Sleeth at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Sleeths at 3214 Quebec in 1940.

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Where the Sleeths lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1327 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • T E Sleeth, a vet 1940

    Next door in 1940: D C McKenzie at 1325 and R P Mercosky at 1331. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3214 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs I G Sleeth 1940
    • Dorothy Sleeth, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
    • Pauline F Sleeth, a saleswoman at Spencer's 1940
    • Phyllis T Sleeth, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: K MacNeill at 3212 and I J Boseley at 3242. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2091 West 42nd Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Alice Sleeth, widow of R 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Noble at 2079. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a saleswoman (3). One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Kerrisdale and Riley Park. 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 T E Sleeth, a vet, at 1327 Granville Street. Mrs I G Sleeth is listed at 3214 Quebec Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Dorothy Sleeth there, a saleswoman at Woodward's, with Pauline F Sleeth, a saleswoman at Spencer's, and Phyllis T Sleeth, a saleswoman at the Hudson's Bay Company. The 1940 name section lists Alice Sleeth at 2091 West 42nd Avenue, widow of R.

Today

The City no longer lists 1327 Granville, 3214 Quebec and 2091 West 42nd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 3214 Quebec: no archive photo of the 3200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

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

The book of the Sleeths

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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.