A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown
The Stewarts
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Stewart at three addresses in 1940, all on West Pender Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 178 other streets too, all listed on the Stewart name's own page.
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Where the Stewarts lived
- 1
615 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- W Constrn Stewart 1940
Next door in 1940: B C Office Equip Co at 611 and Good Eats Cafe Ltd at 619. The block, door by door
- 2
921 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs Enza Stewart, a housekeeper at the Abbotsford Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: Registration Bureau Stenographers at 911 and Weeks & Co Ltd at 923. The block, door by door
- 3
1068 West Pender Street
Downtown, 1940
- Clem Stewart 1940
Next door in 1940: Loy Kwong at 1066 and Marine Drsmkrs & Clnrs at 1070. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a housekeeper.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 W Constrn Stewart at 615 West Pender Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Enza Stewart at 921 West Pender Street, a housekeeper at the Abbotsford Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Clem Stewart at 1068 West Pender Street.
Today
921 West Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 615 West Pender and 1068 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Stewart W Constrn615 West Pender, p. 130
- Stewart Mrs Enza hsekpr Abbotsford Hotel921 West Pender, p. 587
- Stewart Clem1068 West Pender, p. 586
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Stewarts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Stewart 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.