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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Willmans

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Willman at one address, 1337 East Pender Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.

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The Willmans 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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    1337 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A Willman, of Willman's Cake Shop 1940
    • Mrs Ivy Willman, of Willman's Cake Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs H T Laidlaw at 1325 and R Jane at 1353. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in 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

In 1940 the directory lists A Willman at 1337 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 Alfred Willman there as the householder, of Willman's Cake Shop, with Mrs Ivy Willman, of Willman's Cake Shop.

Today

The City no longer lists 1337 East Pender, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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 1337 East Pender: no archive photo of the 1300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Willmans

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Willman 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.