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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Stauffers

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Stauffer at three 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 Stauffers 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

    2163 Dundas Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E Stauffer 1940

    Next door in 1940: M Calli at 2147. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    177 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Victor L Stauffer, an electrician at Hume & Rumble 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Johnson at 175 and Pool Room Hastings at 179. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    518 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Ken R Stauffer, a secretary at the Arctic Club 1940

    Next door in 1940: Merritt Gordon Hotel at 514 and Merritt Gordon Hotel (Annex) at 520. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an electrician and a secretary.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 E Stauffer at 2163 Dundas Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Earl Stauffer there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Victor L Stauffer at 177 East Hastings Street, an electrician at Hume & Rumble. The 1940 name section lists Ken R Stauffer at 518 Richards Street as the householder, a secretary at the Arctic Club.

Today

2163 Dundas, 177 East Hastings and 518 Richards still have their buildings from before 1946, 518 Richards on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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 Stauffers

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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.