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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Standards

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Standard at four addresses in 1940 in two 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 Standards 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

    791 Dunsmuir Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Life Assur Standard 1940

    Next door in 1940: Snowshoe Gold Mines at 785. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    567 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Testing Labs Standard 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Richmond at 561 and Photo-Arts at 569. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1110 West Broadway

    Fairview, 1940

    • Press Standard, in printers 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mother Hubbard Bky at 1102 and Mrs J Cook at 1114. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    510 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Perm Wave Shoppe Standard 1940

    Next door in 1940: Can Bk of Commerce at 508 and Ziegler's Coffee Shop at 512. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a printers.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (3) and Fairview. 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 Life Assur Standard at 791 Dunsmuir Street. Testing Labs Standard is listed at 567 Hornby Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Press Standard at 1110 West Broadway, in printers. Perm Wave Shoppe Standard is listed at 510 West Hastings Street in 1940.

Today

510 West Hastings still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 567 Hornby (1999) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 791 Dunsmuir and 1110 West Broadway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Standards

Every directory, as one book

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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.