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Sunset

2,521 addresses on 43 streets, in the 1940 city directory

Only one in four of Sunset's addresses still has a building from before 1946, fewer than the one in three on the rest of the site's streets. Sunset was a place of owners: the 1940 directory marks two in three of its households as owning their house, against half elsewhere on the site.

Who lived at each house is read on every street in 1940.

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Sunset today, with its streets on the site in red; the areas around it open their own pages. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).

At work in 1940

The work the 1940 name section prints for the people it lists here, the most common first. Open one for some of the people who did it, each with their house.

  1. Laborer250

    And 245 more, each on their own house's page.

  2. Salesman135

    And 130 more, each on their own house's page.

  3. Carpenter129

    And 124 more, each on their own house's page.

  4. Clerk106

    And 101 more, each on their own house's page.

  5. Driver95

    And 90 more, each on their own house's page.

  6. Helper90

    And 85 more, each on their own house's page.

  7. Proprietor89

    And 84 more, each on their own house's page.

  8. Millworker78

    And 73 more, each on their own house's page.

  9. Saleswoman61

    And 56 more, each on their own house's page.

  10. Stenographer58

    And 53 more, each on their own house's page.

  11. Mechanic53

    And 48 more, each on their own house's page.

  12. Conductor51

    And 46 more, each on their own house's page.

  13. Deliverythree times as common as on the rest of the site's streets19

    And 14 more, each on their own house's page.

  14. Cutterfive times as common as on the rest of the site's streets9

    And 4 more, each on their own house's page.

  15. Planermanfour times as common as on the rest of the site's streets8

    And 3 more, each on their own house's page.

23 people listed here in 1940 were on active service, in the forces.

Who they worked for

  • BC Electric Railway131
  • Vancouver City96
  • Canadian White Pine84
  • BC Plywoods53
  • Spencer's40
  • BC Telephone38
  • Woodward's37
  • CPR32

At home

1,695 of the 2,466 households the 1940 street section lists here carry its * (the directory's mark for a family member owning the house), against half on the rest of the site's streets. *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935).

Three in five of the people its name section lists here are householders (h); the rest live in someone else's house (r), as family, boarders or roomers. On the rest of the site's streets, half are householders.

Still standing

570 of the addresses here still have a building from before 1946; 1,387 were rebuilt later, and 564 are gone from the City's list. The oldest still up:

Years built are the City's assessment records, approximate for old buildings.

In the archives

Archive photos of its streets, then three of its blocks on Goad's 1912 fire insurance map, where the most still stands.

The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street
17 March 1936 The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4867. Public domain.
Goad's 1912 fire insurance map of the 400 block of East 46th Avenue
The 400 block of East 46th Avenue on Goad's fire insurance map, 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives, open data).
Goad's 1912 fire insurance map of the 400 block of East 47th Avenue
The 400 block of East 47th Avenue on Goad's fire insurance map, 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives, open data).
Goad's 1912 fire insurance map of the 300 block of East 45th Avenue
The 300 block of East 45th Avenue on Goad's fire insurance map, 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives, open data).

The streets

The 43 streets in Sunset on the site, A to Z.

  1. Chester Streetthe 5700–6400 and 8000–8100 blocks: 91 addresses, 31 still standing
    1940
  2. Cree Street8 addresses, six still standing
    1940
  3. Culloden Streetthe 5700–5900, 6500–6900 and 7100–7400 blocks: 42 addresses, four still standing
    1940
  4. East 41st Avenuethe 100–200 and 400–700 blocks: 17 addresses, four still standing
    1940
  5. East 42nd Avenuethe 0–100 and 500 blocks: 16 addresses, five still standing
    1940
  6. East 43rd Avenuethe 0–600 blocks: 60 addresses, 16 still standing
    1940
  7. East 44th Avenuethe 0–600 blocks: 98 addresses, 15 still standing
    1940
  8. East 45th Avenuethe 0–1000 blocks: 119 addresses, 43 still standing
    1940
  9. East 46th Avenuethe 0–600 blocks: 108 addresses, 29 still standing
    1940
  10. East 47th Avenuethe 0–700 and 1000 blocks: 112 addresses, 35 still standing
    1940
  11. East 48th Avenuethe 0–600 blocks: 63 addresses, 24 still standing
    1940
  12. East 49th Avenuethe 200–1000 and 1200–1300 blocks: 79 addresses, 21 still standing
    1940
  13. East 50th Avenuethe 0–1000 blocks: 111 addresses, 21 still standing
    1940
  14. East 51st Avenuethe 0–1000 and 1200 blocks: 99 addresses, 16 still standing
    1940
  15. East 52nd Avenuethe 0–100 and 400–800 blocks: 46 addresses, 14 still standing
    1940
  16. East 54th Avenuethe 0–1300 blocks: 99 addresses, 22 still standing
    1940
  17. East 55th Avenuethe 0–1100 and 1300 blocks: 96 addresses, 18 still standing
    1940
  18. East 56th Avenuethe 0–800 and 1000 blocks: 83 addresses, twelve still standing
    1940
  19. East 57th Avenuethe 0–1300 blocks: 93 addresses, 23 still standing
    1940
  20. East 58th Avenue67 addresses, 13 still standing
    1940
  21. East 59th Avenuethe 0–1300 blocks: 86 addresses, 14 still standing
    1940
  22. East 60th Avenuethe 0–700 and 1100–1300 blocks: 63 addresses, 22 still standing
    1940
  23. East 61st Avenuethe 700–1300 blocks: 16 addresses
    1940
  24. East 62nd Avenue72 addresses, ten still standing
    1940
  25. East 63rd Avenuethe 100–400, 600–1000 and 1200 blocks: 47 addresses, seven still standing
    1940
  26. East 64th Avenuethe 0–300, 600, 800–1000 and 1200 blocks: 39 addresses, seven still standing
    1940
  27. East 65th Avenue22 addresses, three still standing
    1940
  28. Elgin Streetthe 6300–6400 blocks: 7 addresses, one still standing
    1940
  29. Fraser Streetthe 5700–7700 and 7900–8200 blocks: 222 addresses, 30 still standing
    1940
  30. Frederick Street4 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  31. Inverness Streetthe 5700–6000 and 6500–7400 blocks: 45 addresses, five still standing
    1940
  32. Knight Streetthe 6800–6900 and 7200 blocks: 10 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  33. Main Streetthe 5700–6600, 6800, 7200–7700 and 8100 blocks: 49 addresses, six still standing
    1940
  34. Ontario Place6 addresses, four still standing
    1940
  35. Ontario Streetthe 5800, 6300–6400, 6800–7400, 7600–7800 and 8000 blocks: 52 addresses, 21 still standing
    1940
  36. Poplar Street3 addresses, one still standing
    1940
  37. Prince Albert Streetthe 6000–6400, 7300 and 7700–7800 blocks: 66 addresses, 17 still standing
    1940
  38. Prince Edward Streetthe 5700–5800, 6300–6400, 6900–7000, 7200–7600 and 8000 blocks: 42 addresses, 15 still standing
    1940
  39. Quebec Streetthe 5800–6000, 6300–6400 and 6900–7100 blocks: 29 addresses, seven still standing
    1940
  40. Ross Streetthe 5800, 6300, 6500–6800, 7200 and 7500 blocks: 20 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  41. Sherbrooke Streetthe 5700–6000, 6500–6800 and 7100–7300 blocks: 31 addresses, two still standing
    1940
  42. Sophia Streetthe 5700–5800 and 6300–6400 blocks: 30 addresses, twelve still standing
    1940
  43. Windsor Streetthe 6100–6400 and 7700–7900 blocks: 53 addresses, eight still standing
    1940

What the directory left out

The 1940 directory printed “Orientals” at three doors in Sunset instead of the residents' names. Its canvassers often didn't take down Chinese, Japanese and other residents' names, so the people at those doors can't be named or counted from it. Each door is on its street's page, as printed.

Next door

Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Marpole, Oakridge, Riley Park and Victoria-Fraserview.