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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cantones

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Cantone at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Canton. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Cantones at 5471 Wales in 1940.

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Where the Cantones 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

    3725 Arbutus Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • L Cantone, a bookkeeper at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: R B Reid at 3707 and M N Limon at 3741. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    765 East 31st Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • R Canton 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Green at 749 and D B Scott at 795. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5471 Wales Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • A Cantone, retired 1940
    • Pearl H Cantone, a stenographer at the BC Government 1940
    • Victor Cantone, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: G W J Woodrow at 5485. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a bookkeeper, a laborer and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge, Kensington-Cedar Cottage 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 L Cantone at 3725 Arbutus Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Louis G Cantone there as the householder, a bookkeeper at the CPR. In 1940 the directory lists R Canton at 765 East 31st 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).

A Cantone is listed at 5471 Wales Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Agabio Cantone there as the householder, retired, with Adeline Cantone, a checker at the Sanitary Dry Cleaning & Dye Works, Pearl H Cantone, a stenographer at the BC Government, and Victor Cantone, a laborer.

Today

5471 Wales still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 3725 Arbutus (2000) and 765 East 31st (2008) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Cantones

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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.