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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Veals

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Veal at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Veals at 3219 Oak in 1940.

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Where the Veals 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

    520 East 21st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • James Veal, who worked for Perfex Manufacturing 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Henson at 516 and Mrs P F Simmons at 526. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3219 Oak Street

    South Cambie, 1940

    • H J Veal, a collector for R H Stewart 1940
    • Edna M Veal, a clerk 1940
    • Mrs Gwen M Veal, proprietor of Oak Lee Drygoods 1940

    Next door in 1940: G D Roberts at 3215 and Bar Beauty at 3221. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a clerk, a collector, an employee and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park and South Cambie. 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 James Veal at 520 East 21st Avenue, who worked for Perfex Manufacturing. H J Veal is listed at 3219 Oak Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Henry J Veal there as the householder, a collector for R H Stewart, with Edna M Veal, a clerk, and Mrs Gwen M Veal, proprietor of Oak Lee Drygoods.

Today

520 East 21st (1969) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3219 Oak, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A truck on muddy Oak Street, looking north from 16th Avenue
13 January 1928 A truck on muddy Oak Street, looking north from 16th Avenue. Taken where the 3200 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 3219 Oak. City of Vancouver Archives, Str N262.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Veals

Every directory, as one book

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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.