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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Burds

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Burd at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Burds lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1300 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • F J Burd, a president at the Vancouver Daily Province 1940
    • Beattie Burd, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: H J Cave at 1320. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1336 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Richard Burd 1940

    Next door in 1940: Cecil Cafe at 1326 and Independent Motors at 1344. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown 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

In 1940 the directory lists F J Burd at 1300 Comox Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Francis J Burd there as the householder, a president at the Vancouver Daily Province, with Beattie Burd, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital. The 1940 name section lists Richard Burd at 1336 Granville Street.

Today

The City no longer lists 1300 Comox and 1336 Granville, 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 1300 Comox: no archive photo of the 1300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Burds

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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.