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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Westergaards

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Westergaard 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 Westergaards 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

    56 East Cordova Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Hans Westergaard, a trimmer at Queen Charlotte Towing & Salvage 1940

    Next door in 1940: Van Shirt & Overall Mfg at 54 and Kloepfer Hdw Whol at 62. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1365 East Georgia Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs Minnie Westergard 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Monych at 1355. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3949 West 32nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • A N Westergaard, a master mariner 1940

    Next door in 1940: E C Trumbell at 3943 and G A Dirom at 3959. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a master mariner and a trimmer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands and Grandview-Woodland. 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 Hans Westergaard at 56 East Cordova Street, a trimmer at Queen Charlotte Towing & Salvage. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Minnie Westergard at 1365 East Georgia Street. In 1940 the directory lists A N Westergaard at 3949 West 32nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Alfred N Westergaaard there as the householder, a master mariner.

Today

3949 West 32nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1938 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 56 East Cordova and 1365 East Georgia, so those buildings are 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Westergaards

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.