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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Duffins

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Duffin at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. 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 Duffins at 942 East 58th in 1940.

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Where the Duffins 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

    864 East 19th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C Duffin, a fitter 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs P Illingworth at 824 and E G McCall at 870. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    942 East 58th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • W C Duffin, a machinist 1940
    • George W Duffin, a sign painter 1940
    • Winifred A Duffin 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a fitter, a machinist and a sign painter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset. 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 C Duffin at 864 East 19th 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 Charles Duffin there as the householder, a fitter. In 1940 the directory lists W C Duffin at 942 East 58th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William C Duffin there as the householder, a machinist, with George W Duffin, a sign painter, and Winifred A Duffin.

Today

864 East 19th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record; 942 East 58th (2014) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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

The book of the Duffins

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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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.