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A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Craigs

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Craig at two addresses in 1940, all on East 8th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Craigs at 2680 East 8th in 1940. The directories print the name on 83 other streets too, all listed on the Craig name's own page.

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Where the Craigs 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

    549 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Molly S Craig, a cashier at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
    • Thomas A Craig, a buncher at C N Institute 1940

    Next door in 1940: C C Hall at 547 and R A Holland at 563. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2680 East 8th Avenue

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • R Craig, a watchman 1940
    • Isabel C Craig, a domestic 1940
    • John T H Craig 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Ambrose at 2674 and A D Legge at 2684. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a buncher, a cashier, a domestic and a watchman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise and Mount Pleasant. 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 Molly S Craig at 549 East 8th Avenue, a cashier at the Hudson's Bay Company, with Thomas A Craig, a buncher at C N Institute. R Craig is listed at 2680 East 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Robert Craig there as the householder, a watchman, with Robert Craig Jr, Isabel C Craig, a domestic, and John T H Craig.

Today

2680 East 8th (1983) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 549 East 8th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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 Craigs

Every directory, as one book

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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.