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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cambies

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Cambie 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 Cambies 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

    1154 Gilford Street

    West End, 1940

    • John Cambie 1940
    • Norah P Cambie, a stenographer at Shell Oil 1940

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

  2. 2

    2831 West 45th Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • H B Cambie 1940
    • Disney Cambie, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: J V Clyne at 2819 and A Aitken at 2855. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale 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 John Cambie at 1154 Gilford Street, with Norah P Cambie, a stenographer at Shell Oil. H B Cambie is listed at 2831 West 45th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Disney Cambie there, a student.

Today

1154 Gilford and 2831 West 45th still have their buildings from before 1946, 1154 Gilford on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Cambies

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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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.