Five of the Temple household are listed at 1120 Cotton Drive in 1940: Doug Temple, a baker; Dorothy A Temple, an operator at the BC Telephone; Beatrice H Temple, a supervisor at the BC Telephone; and two others.
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- 5
- people the 1940 directory lists here
- Address gone
- today, by the City's records
In 1940
The household
- Dorothy A Templean operator at the BC Telephone · lives herep. 605
- Doug Templea baker · householderp. 605
Also under the Temple name
Cotton Drive is read from the 1940 directory, street section and name section, line by line.
1940British Columbia and Yukon Directory
Streets
COTTON DRIVE
Names
The house today
Not one of the three addresses the 1940 directory lists on the 1100 block of Cotton Drive is on the City's list today, so the building at 1120 is probably gone (inferred). A permit to build three frame d houses at 1104, 1112 and 1120 Cotton Drive, this one among them, was taken out in April 1910 by John Knight, owner and builder: $6,600 for the three.
The 1100 block in 1940
Cotton Drive, Grandview-Woodland: every door the 1940 directory lists on the block, the way it prints them, and what stands at each today. This house is marked in red.
Cotton Drive, the 1100 blockas the 1940 directory lists it, door by door, and what stands there today
*: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark, printed from 1935)
West side, odd numbers
No west-side addresses in the 1940 directory.
East side, even numbers
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1120 Cotton Drive, Grandview-Woodland, Vancouver, is in the 1940 city directory. The City no longer lists the address.
Source: AddressLore, addresslore.com/house/1120-cotton-drive, from Vancouver's city directories (Vancouver Public Library) and City of Vancouver open data.
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Sources
The 1940 city directory (British Columbia and Yukon Directory), street and name sections, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories); each line above links its page. Today's buildings: City of Vancouver Open Data (property tax report 2026, property addresses, Vancouver Heritage Register; Open Government Licence – Vancouver). The City's year built is BC Assessment's figure and can be approximate for old houses. Building permit: Heritage Vancouver Society's transcription of the City's permit registers, 1901–1930 (Historical Vancouver Building Permits; search it for this address). Something wrong, or a name you'd like removed? Tell us.