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The Canadas

In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses

The directories print five people named Canada at five addresses in 1940 in four 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 Canadas 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

    2853 Granville Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • Produce (T Lum) Canada, in fruit and produce 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Holmes at 2845 and Sausages Van Fancy at 2863. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    118 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Daily News Canada 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Shimada at 128. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    432 Richards Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Permanent Mortgage Corporation Canada 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Shishkin at 424 and Friendly Conf at 434. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1959 Triumph Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Carbide Canada 1940

    Next door in 1940: Economy Steam Lndy at 1947. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    640 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Life Canada 1940

    Next door in 1940: Strand Cigar Store at 626 and can bank of com at 698. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the five: a fruit and produce.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Fairview, Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 Produce (T Lum) Canada at 2853 Granville Street, in fruit and produce. The 1940 name section lists Daily News Canada at 118 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists Permanent Mortgage Corporation Canada at 432 Richards Street. Carbide Canada is listed at 1959 Triumph Street in 1940.

In 1940 the directory lists Life Canada at 640 West Hastings Street.

Today

118 Main and 432 Richards still have their buildings from before 1946, 432 Richards on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 2853 Granville, 1959 Triumph and 640 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk
1917 Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk. Not at the house at 2853 Granville: no archive photo of the 2800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-350. Public domain.

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

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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.