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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Bunches

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Bunch at four addresses in 1940 in two 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 Bunches 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

    5441 Dundee Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • A Bunch, an assistant engineer at McGavin 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Steel at 5457. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    989 Hornby Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Alfred Bunch 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Ross at 981 and F Maynard at 993. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    991 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • William T L Bunch, a waiter at the CNR 1940
  4. 4

    1041 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J E Bunch 1940

    Next door in 1940: D Smith at 1039 and Central Sht Metal Wks at 1067. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: an assistant engineer and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (3) and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 A Bunch at 5441 Dundee Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alex Bunch there as the householder, an assistant engineer at McGavin. The 1940 name section lists Alfred Bunch at 989 Hornby Street. The 1940 name section lists William T L Bunch at 991 Richards Street, a waiter at the CNR.

In 1940 the directory lists J E Bunch at 1041 Richards Street.

Today

5441 Dundee still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record; 989 Hornby (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 991 Richards and 1041 Richards, so those buildings are 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 Bunches

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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.