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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Vests

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Vest at one address, 8911 Hudson Street in Marpole, in 1940.

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The Vests 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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    8911 Hudson Street

    Marpole, 1940

    • R Vest, proprietor of Marpole Fish & Chips 1940
    • Elizabeth Vest, a branch manager at Canadian Wind Bakeries 1940
    • Margaret Vest, a branch manager at Canadian Wind Bakeries 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Roberts at 8907 and J G McGregor at 8923. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a branch manager (2) and a proprietor. Two of them worked for Canadian Wind Bakeries.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Marpole. 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 R Vest at 8911 Hudson Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Roseby Vest there as the householder, proprietor of Marpole Fish & Chips, with Elizabeth Vest, a branch manager at Canadian Wind Bakeries, and Margaret Vest, a branch manager at Canadian Wind Bakeries.

Today

The City no longer lists 8911 Hudson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Hudson Street looking south toward the Eburne station, past the Hotel Eburne and parked cars
The 1910s Hudson Street looking south toward the Eburne station, past the Hotel Eburne and parked cars. Not at the house at 8911 Hudson: no archive photo of the 8900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 994. 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, street section

The book of the Vests

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Vest 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 V. Want a name removed? Tell us.