A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Yelfs
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Yelf at one address, 4143 West 14th Avenue in West Point Grey, in 1940.
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The Yelfs at home
Point Grey
- 1
4143 West 14th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- D H Yelf, a master mariner 1940
- Jack T Yelf, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: J Kerr at 4137 and F H Fisher at 4153. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a master mariner.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in West Point Grey. 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 D H Yelf at 4143 West 14th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Don H Yelf there as the householder, a master mariner, with Jack T Yelf, a student.
Today
4143 West 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Yelf D H4143 West 14th, p. 217
- Yelf Don H mstr mrnr4143 West 14th, p. 678
- Yelf Jack T studt4143 West 14th, p. 678
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Yelfs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Yelf 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 Y. Want a name removed? Tell us.