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A family name on Keefer Street, Strathcona and Downtown

The Spencers

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Spencer at two addresses in 1940, all on Keefer Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 47 other streets too, all listed on the Spencer name's own page.

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Where the Spencers 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

    837 Keefer Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Lambert Spencer, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Peterson at 833 and S Watanabe at 843. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    926 Keefer Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Andrew Spencer, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: A B Bouchie at 920 and Mrs H E Vershinin at 936. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (2). 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 Lambert Spencer at 837 Keefer Street, a salesman. The 1940 name section lists Andrew Spencer at 926 Keefer Street, retired.

Today

837 Keefer still has its building from before 1946, dated 1901 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 926 Keefer, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

The Wong Wing Fong family on Keefer Street
1914 The Wong Wing Fong family on Keefer Street. Not at the house at 837 Keefer: no archive photo of the 800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2021-034.288, photo by Yucho Chow Studio. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 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 Spencers

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Spencer 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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Another name, or a house

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.