1946 Comox Street

1946 Comox Street – Detail from [Houses on the north side of the 1900 Block of Pendrell Street] – AM54-S4-2 – CVA 371-723.

1946 Comox Street was on the south side of Comox Street, in the middle of the block between Gilford Street and Chilco Street. It is in the centre right of the photograph above.

Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 70, Lot 11.

1900 Block Comox Street south -1900 Block Pendrell north – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the City of Vancouver – 1912- Vol 1 – Plate 8.

1946 Comox Street; 1913, detail from Denman Street to Comox Street to Stanley Park boundary to English Bay Reference code: 1972-582.38 – Plate 63; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-63-denman-street-to-comox-street-to-stanley-park-boundary-to-english-bay.

There are no references to this property in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits: http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched February  18, 2019].

Vancouver directory listings from 1908 to 1926:

1908 to 1912	Sutton, William John
1913 to 1926	McIlreevy, James Earle

In 1928, the house was available to rent.

Vancouver Province, November 26, 1928, page 15, column 6.

In 1930, the house was for sale.

Vancouver Province, June 15, 1930, page 25, column 8.

The house was a rooming house during the 1930s and 1940s.

Vancouver Province, March 17, 1934, page 23, column 4.

In 1946, the surplus furnishings from the house were for sale.

Vancouver Province, September 6, 1946, page 15, column 8.

1946 Comox Street; detail from First Beach, 1954; BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

The house continued to offer rental accommodation until the early 1960s.

Vancouver Sun, December 14, 1962, page 44, column 3.

By 1963, the house was demolished to make way for new construction.

1956 Comox Street and 1946 Comox Street; construction site; August 26, 1963; detail from Aerial view from helicopter; West End and Apartment Houses; Vancouver City Archives, CVA 160-14; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/aerial-view-from-helicopter-west-end-and-apartment-houses.

By May 1964, a new rental apartment building had appeared on the site, with an address of 1952 Comox Street.

1900 Block Comox Street (south side), Vanmapp, City of Vancouver; http://vanmapp.vancouver.ca/pubvanmap_net/default.aspx. [Includes 1912 Goad’s map of Vancouver and property addresses in 2019.]

Vancouver Sun, May 16, 1964, page 35, column 6.

The building was called “The Pacific Apartments.”

Vancouver Sun, July 23, 1964, page 42, column 4.

In 1965, new managers took over the building and re-named it “The Breakers.”

Vancouver Sun, June 17, 1965, page 52, column 7.

1952 Comox Street; Google Streets; searched February 19, 2019; image dated August 2018.

 

Sources

Hollyburn Properties Limited, The Breakers, 1952 Comox Street, Vancouver, BC; https://www.hollyburn.com/building/the-breakers/.