A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Wiers
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Wier at one address, 1496 Nanaimo Street in Hastings-Sunrise, in 1940.
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The Wiers at home
Sunrise
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1496 Nanaimo Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- F H Wier, a stevedore 1940
Next door in 1940: T G Wood at 1484. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a stevedore.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 F H Wier at 1496 Nanaimo 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 Frederick H Wier there as the householder, a stevedore.
Today
For 1496 Nanaimo, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Wier F H1496 Nanaimo, p. 116
- Wier Fredk H stvdre1496 Nanaimo, p. 658
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Wiers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Wier 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 W. Want a name removed? Tell us.