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A family name on Gilford Street, West End

The Andersons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Anderson at two addresses in 1940, all on Gilford Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 213 other streets too, all listed on the Anderson name's own page.

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Where the Andersons lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    778 Gilford Street

    West End, 1940

    • S H Anderson, an engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: R L Aiken at 748 and Mrs R Martin at 786. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1154 Gilford Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs C Anderson 1940
    • Audrey Anderson, a stenographer at Standard Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L Foerster at 1106. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an engineer and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2). 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 S H Anderson at 778 Gilford Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sam H Anderson there as the householder, an engineer. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs C Anderson at 1154 Gilford Street. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Cathlene Anderson there as the householder, with Audrey Anderson, a stenographer at Standard Oil.

Today

1154 Gilford still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 778 Gilford, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Andersons

Every directory, as one book

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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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.