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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Vallases

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Vallas at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Vallases 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

    105 Alexander Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J Vallas, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lunch Ferry at 111. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2439 East Hastings Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • William Vallas, proprietor of Olympia Shoe Store 1940

    Next door in 1940: Safeway Stores at 2431 and Purity Meat Mkt at 2441. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    429 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J Vallas, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: New York Hat Wks at 427. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a confectioner and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 Vallas, a confectioner, at 105 Alexander Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Vallas at 2439 East Hastings Street, proprietor of Olympia Shoe Store. In 1940 the directory lists J Vallas at 429 West Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists John Vallas there as the householder, a confectioner.

Today

2439 East Hastings and 429 West Pender still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 105 Alexander, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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, street section

The book of the Vallases

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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 V. Want a name removed? Tell us.