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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bourgets

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Bourget at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. 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 Bourgets 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

    1056 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Isabelle Bourget, a nurse at the St Paul's Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: G P Campbell at 1070. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1155 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Philip J Bourget, an apprentice at the Canadian (BC) Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: Bank of Montreal at 1149 and W Bailey at 1157. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    895 West 52nd Avenue

    Oakridge, 1940

    • J P Bourget 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Muirhead at 883. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an apprentice and a nurse.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Oakridge 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 Isabelle Bourget at 1056 Comox Street, a nurse at the St Paul's Hospital. The 1940 name section lists Philip J Bourget at 1155 Granville Street, an apprentice at the Canadian (BC) Telephone. In 1940 the directory lists J P Bourget at 895 West 52nd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark).

Today

1155 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1056 Comox and 895 West 52nd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees
1925 Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees. Not at the house at 1056 Comox: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Bourgets

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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.