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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Weatherbees

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Weatherbee at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Weatherbie. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Weatherbees 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

    441 East Pender Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • G D Weatherbie, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Svea Rooms at 431 and Kee One at 449. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3568 West 37th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Miss A R Weatherbee 1940
    • Ava R Weatherbee, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Taylor at 3560 and M T R Nevill at 3576. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands 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

In 1940 the directory lists G D Weatherbie at 441 East Pender Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George D Weatherbie there as the householder, retired. In 1940 the directory lists Miss A R Weatherbee at 3568 West 37th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Ava R Weatherbee there as the householder, a school teacher.

Today

3568 West 37th (2012) has a newer building, by the City's record; for 441 East Pender, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 441 East Pender: no archive photo of the 400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. 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 Weatherbees

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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.