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A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole

The Coopers

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Cooper at two addresses in 1940, all on Granville Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 83 other streets too, all listed on the Cooper name's own page.

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Where the Coopers 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

    1060 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Robert Cooper, a machinist operator at Canadian Wood Pipe 1940

    Next door in 1940: Balderston Motors (used cars) at 1056 and Dom Furn Chain Stores at 1062. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6010 Granville Street

    Oakridge, 1940

    • Arthur J O Cooper, a clerk at BC Pen 1940

    Next door in 1940: B L Pendleton at 6030. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a machinist operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Oakridge. 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 Robert Cooper at 1060 Granville Street, a machinist operator at Canadian Wood Pipe. The 1940 name section lists Arthur J O Cooper at 6010 Granville Street, a clerk at BC Pen.

Today

1060 Granville and 6010 Granville still have their buildings from before 1946, 1060 Granville on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

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 1060 Granville: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-350. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 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 Coopers

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Cooper name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.