A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown
The Stephenses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Stephens at two addresses in 1940, all on West Pender 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
- 1
612 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Ernest Stephens, a shoe shine 1940
Next door in 1940: Central Cafe Ltd at 608 and richards akroyd & gall at 614. The block, door by door
- 2
1120 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Stephens (no first name printed) 1940
Next door in 1940: S W H Mackay at 1114 and T Nakamura at 1122. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a shoe shine.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ernest Stephens at 612 West Pender Street, a shoe shine. The 1940 name section lists Stephens (no first name printed) at 1120 West Pender Street.
Today
The City no longer lists 612 West Pender and 1120 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Stephens Ernest shoe shine 523 Seymour612 West Pender, p. 584
- Stephens —1120 West Pender, p. 584
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Stephenses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Stephens name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.