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A family name on Main Street, Riley Park, Strathcona, Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

The Cunninghams

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Cunningham at three addresses in 1940, all on Main 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. 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

    3771 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A Cunningham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss E L Mitchell at 3761 and A E Kissock at 3793. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4332 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A Cunningham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D Ezzy at 4330 and G Onodera at 4334. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4814 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • D confectioner Cunningham 1940
    • Viola A Cunningham, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Tobacco Pioneer at 4808 and F Hicks at 4862. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (3). 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 Cunningham at 3771 Main Street. A Cunningham is listed at 4332 Main Street in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists D confectioner Cunningham at 4814 Main Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Viola A Cunningham there, a saleswoman at Woodward's.

Today

3771 Main (1975) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 4332 Main and 4814 Main, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 4814 Main: no archive photo of the 4800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 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

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.