A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole
The Crawfords
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named Crawford at four addresses in 1940, all on Granville Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 70 other streets too, all listed on the Crawford name's own page.
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Where the Crawfords lived
- 1
543 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- J S Crawford, a massage 1940
Next door in 1940: Leather Gds Burns at 541 and L C Fraser at 545. The block, door by door
- 2
1018 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- R Crawford 1940
Next door in 1940: Oil Burner Dominion at 1016 and Alberta Furn at 1020. The block, door by door
- 3
1025 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- Thomas Crawford, a cook 1940
Next door in 1940: W C Stearman at 1023 and Plaza Hotel at 1029. The block, door by door
- 4
1140 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- John Crawford, a seaman 1940
Next door in 1940: Cut Rate Furn at 1138. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a cook and a seaman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (4). 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 J S Crawford, a massage, at 543 Granville Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists R Crawford at 1018 Granville Street. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Crawford at 1025 Granville Street, a cook. The 1940 name section lists John Crawford at 1140 Granville Street, a seaman.
Today
1018 Granville and 1025 Granville still have their buildings from before 1946, 1025 Granville on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 543 Granville (1995) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1140 Granville, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Crawford J S massage543 Granville, p. 63
- Crawford R1018 Granville, p. 137
- Crawford Thos cook1025 Granville, p. 137
- Crawford John seamn1140 Granville, p. 137
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Crawfords
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Crawford 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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Another name, or a house
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.