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A family name on Bute Street, West End and Downtown

The Cunninghams

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Cunningham at four addresses in 1940, all on Bute 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 43 other streets too, all listed on the Cunningham name's own page.

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Where the Cunninghams 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

    744 Bute Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss Cunningham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss E Cunningham at 748. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    748 Bute Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss E Cunningham 1940
    • Elizabeth Cunningham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss Cunningham at 744 and Mrs E Milliken at 786. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    995 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Myrtle Cunningham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs F M Douglass at 989. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1150 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Ella Cunningham 1940

    Next door in 1940: W H Davison at 1140 and H D Yeats at 1156. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and West End (2). 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 Miss Cunningham at 744 Bute Street. Miss E Cunningham is listed at 748 Bute Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Elizabeth Cunningham there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Myrtle Cunningham at 995 Bute Street.

The 1940 name section lists Ella Cunningham at 1150 Bute Street.

Today

995 Bute (2006) and 1150 Bute (1998) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 744 Bute and 748 Bute, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Cunninghams

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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.