1859 Pendrell Street

1859 Pendrell Street; detail from First Beach, 1954; BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

1859 Pendrell Street was on the north side of Pendrell Street, between Denman Street and Chilco Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185; Block 70; west half of Lot 36.

1800 Block Pendrell Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 8 – Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.

1859 Pendrell Street and 1847 Pendrell Street; detail from Goad’s Atlas of Vancouver, volume 1; Plate 63 Denman Street to Comox Street to Stanley Park boundary to English Bay; Vancouver City Archives, 1972-582.38; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-63-denman-street-to-comox-street-to-stanley-park-boundary-to-english-bay.

There are no references to this lot in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits: http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched August 31, 2019].

Vancouver directory listings from 1907 to 1920.

1907 to 1909	Linton, Walter Inglis
1910 to 1912	Creelman, Angus Mcgillivary
1914 to 1915	Pidgeon, Edward Leslie
1916 to 1918	Herman, John William
1919	Thirkell, Leonard William
1920	Vacant

Robert William Fiddes and his wife, Jemima, lived at 1859 Pendrell Street from 1920 to 1926. Further information appears on the page for Fiddes, Robert William (1872-1954); https://westendvancouver.wordpress.com/biographies-a-m/biographies-f/fiddes-robert-william-1872-1954/.

An artist named Annie Beattie Sinton (1877-1948) lived at 1859 Pendrell Street in 1926.

Annie Beatty [sic] (Sinton) Philpot & John Sinton; ancestry.ca.

Vancouver Province, August 19, 1926, page 13, column 3.

Further information appears on the page for Annie Beattie Sinton.

The house at 1859 Pendrell Street offered rental accommodations from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Vancouver Province, September 13, 1927, page 15, column 4.

Vancouver Province, October 15, 1934, page 10, column 6.

Vancouver Province, December 30, 1937, page 17, column 3.

Vancouver Sun, September 15, 1948, page 38, column 3.

Vancouver Sun, October 26, 1954, page 32, column 6.

1859 Pendrell Street, 1957; detail from Aerial view of the West End showing the increase of apartment buildings west of Cardero Street; Vancouver City Archives; Dist P133; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/7/8/789011/ee9fb9e8-21b9-4ca5-a5b6-d28e6d51046e-A25977.jpg.

By 1966, the lot was part of the site of Pacific Sands Apartments at 1122 Gilford Street.

Vancouver Sun, March 30, 1966, page 46, column 6.

The Pacific Sands, 1122 Gilford Street, https://pacific-sands.com/