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A family name on Dundas Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland

The Stephenses

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Stephens at two addresses in 1940, all on Dundas 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 52 other streets too, all listed on the Stephens name's own page.

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Where the Stephenses 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

    3446 Dundas Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • J T Stephens, an electrician 1940
    • Irene E Stephens, a waitress 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E M Parker at 3438 and B S Reeve at 3460. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3551 Dundas Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • F Stephens, a typist at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Waddell at 3547 and T E Burke at 3557. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an electrician, a typist and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (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

In 1940 the directory lists J T Stephens at 3446 Dundas Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists James T Stephens there as the householder, a caterer, with James T Stephens Jr, an electrician, and Irene E Stephens, a waitress. In 1940 the directory lists F Stephens at 3551 Dundas Street. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Stephens there as the householder, a typist at the CPR.

Today

3446 Dundas and 3551 Dundas still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Stephenses

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.