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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Cregos

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Crego at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Cregos 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

    1200 Bidwell Street

    West End, 1940

    • A A Crego, rooms to let 1940

    Next door in 1940: A E Salsbury at 1218. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    905 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • V C Crego, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M A Kirkby at 903 and W P McKee at 909. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2249 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A A Crego, a carrier driver at R&H Sawmill 1940
    • Victor C Crego, a barber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M Philip at 2241 and F G Havers at 2259. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a barber and a carrier driver.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant and West End. 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 A A Crego, rooms to let, at 1200 Bidwell Street. V C Crego, a barber, is listed at 905 East Broadway in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists A A Crego at 2249 West 3rd 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). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ariel A Crego there as the householder, with Aseal A Crego, a carrier driver at R&H Sawmill, and Victor C Crego, a barber.

Today

The City no longer lists 1200 Bidwell, 905 East Broadway and 2249 West 3rd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.