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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bourges

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named Bourge at five addresses in 1940 in four of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Burge. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Bourges 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

    2313 Alberta Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Herbert Burge, a helper at the Western Foundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Armour at 2305 and T S Brown at 2321. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1974 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Thomas A Burge, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Whiteway at 1958. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1038 Clark Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • H R Burge 1940
    • Ray Burge 1940

    Next door in 1940: J B Ferguson at 1032. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    685 West 19th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Axel Burge, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Wharton at 683 and A H Prentice at 687. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    120 West 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • F Bourge, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Y Takahashi at 116 and M Fujita at 122. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a carpenter, a clerk, a fisherman and a helper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2), Grandview-Woodland, South Cambie and West End. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Herbert Burge at 2313 Alberta Street, a helper at the Western Foundry. The 1940 name section lists Thomas A Burge at 1974 Barclay Street, a clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce. In 1940 the directory lists H R Burge at 1038 Clark Drive. The 1940 name section lists H Roderick Burge there as the householder, with Ray Burge.

The 1940 name section lists Axel Burge at 685 West 19th Avenue, a carpenter. F Bourge is listed at 120 West 4th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Bourge there as the householder, a fisherman.

Today

1038 Clark Drive and 685 West 19th still have their buildings from before 1946, 685 West 19th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 2313 Alberta, 1974 Barclay and 120 West 4th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Children on the grounds of the open-air school at 20th Avenue and Clark Drive
About 1926 Children on the grounds of the open-air school at 20th Avenue and Clark Drive. Not at the house at 1038 Clark Drive: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 96-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Bourges

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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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.