A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Snowballs
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Snowball 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.
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Where the Snowballs lived
- 1
5490 Elm Street
Arbutus Ridge, 1940
- Mrs Harriet Snowball, a stenographer 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs R E Murray at 5464. The block, door by door
- 2
1137 Lakewood Drive
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- A R Snowball 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M F Robertson at 1127 and T Carlet at 1175. The block, door by door
- 3
6592 Yew Street
Kerrisdale, 1940
- W H Snowball, an accountant at Service Packing 1940
- M Elizabeth Snowball, a saleswoman 1940
Next door in 1940: C W Halford at 6576. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an accountant, a saleswoman and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge, Grandview-Woodland and Kerrisdale. 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 Mrs Harriet Snowball at 5490 Elm Street, a stenographer. A R Snowball is listed at 1137 Lakewood Drive 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). In 1940 the directory lists W H Snowball at 6592 Yew Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William H Snowball there as the householder, an accountant at Service Packing, with M Elizabeth Snowball, a saleswoman.
Today
6592 Yew still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; 1137 Lakewood Drive (1973) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5490 Elm, 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.
The book of the Snowballs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Snowball 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.