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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Stowells

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Stowell at one address, 1357 Barclay Street in West End, in 1940.

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The Stowells at home

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).
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    1357 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • R J Stowell, a machinist at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940
    • S Stowell, who worked for the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • J Stowell, a caretaker at the Halbert Apartments 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a caretaker and a machinist.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in West End. 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 Stowell at 1357 Barclay Street. By 1940 it is S Stowell. In 1940 the listing there is R J Stowell. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert J Stowell there as the householder, a machinist at the Burrard Dry Dock, with Sam Stowell, who worked for the BC Electric Railway, and Jonathan Stowell, a caretaker at the Halbert Apartments.

Today

1357 Barclay still has its building from before 1946, dated 1906 by the City's record.

Barclay Street between Jervis and Broughton, under its rows of boulevard trees
1925 Barclay Street between Jervis and Broughton, under its rows of boulevard trees. Taken on the 1300 block; it doesn't single out the house at 1357 Barclay. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-5. Public domain.

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 Stowells

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Stowell 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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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.