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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Udells

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Udell at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Udells 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

    1760 East 7th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • C Udell 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Silvester at 1756 and H R McDonald at 1768. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3732 Knight Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W A Udell, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: B D Davidson at 3728 and T F Timms at 3740. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1043 Union Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Clarence Udell, a curer at Reliance Fish 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Hecimovich at 1039. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a curer and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Strathcona. 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 C Udell at 1760 East 7th Avenue. W A Udell is listed at 3732 Knight Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William A Udell there as the householder, a laborer. The 1940 name section lists Clarence Udell at 1043 Union Street, a curer at Reliance Fish.

Today

1760 East 7th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 1043 Union (1973) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3732 Knight, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

George, a young man in a bowler hat, standing in a yard on Knight Road (now Knight Street) in Cedar Cottage
November 1907 George, a young man in a bowler hat, standing in a yard on Knight Road (now Knight Street) in Cedar Cottage. Not at the house at 3732 Knight: no archive photo of the 3700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 330-4. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Udells

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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 U. Want a name removed? Tell us.