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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Steers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Steer 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 Steers 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

    737 Beatty Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A G Steer, retired 1940
    • Alfred W Steer, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Welsh F & Son at 733 and H Field at 743. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    927 Howe Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs Margaret Steer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Royal Parking Serv at 925 and Mrs B A Vigneron at 935. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3505 West 30th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • H J Steer, a principal property inspector at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • William H Steer, proprietor of Robson Cycles 1940

    Next door in 1940: A McGavin at 3517. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a laborer, a principal property inspector and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and Dunbar-Southlands. 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 A G Steer at 737 Beatty Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alfred G Steer there as the householder, retired, with Alfred W Steer, a laborer. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Margaret Steer at 927 Howe Street.

H J Steer is listed at 3505 West 30th 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 Henry J Steer there as the householder, a principal property inspector at the City of Vancouver, with William H Steer, proprietor of Robson Cycles.

Today

3505 West 30th (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 737 Beatty and 927 Howe, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.