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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The St Clairs

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named St Clair at five addresses in 1940 in four 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 St Clairs 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

    1650 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Margaret St Clair 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Hankin at 1656. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    420 East 17th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Grant St Clair, a salesman at Walker & Worsley 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Nickerson at 414 and T A Cummings at 430. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    403 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Doug M St Clair, of Regent Hotel Barber Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: collins u drive ltd at 417. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    361 West 18th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A K St Clair, retired 1940
    • Clarence H St Clair, a diesel engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: L W Fitchett at 341 and S Lotzkar at 375. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3826 West 36th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • J W St Clair, a postman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs W Steeple at 3816 and R E P O'Brien at 3836. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a diesel engineer, a postman and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2), Dunbar-Southlands, Strathcona and West End. 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 Margaret St Clair at 1650 Barclay Street. The 1940 name section lists Grant St Clair at 420 East 17th Avenue, a salesman at Walker & Worsley. The 1940 name section lists Doug M St Clair at 403 East Hastings Street, of Regent Hotel Barber Shop.

A K St Clair is listed at 361 West 18th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Abner K St Clair there as the householder, retired, with Clarence H St Clair, a diesel engineer. J W St Clair is listed at 3826 West 36th 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 James W St Clair there as the householder, a postman.

Today

420 East 17th, 403 East Hastings and 361 West 18th still have their buildings from before 1946; 1650 Barclay (1956) and 3826 West 36th (1989) 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 St Clairs

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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.