A family name on Cambridge Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland
The Duncans
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Duncan at two addresses in 1940, all on Cambridge Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 81 other streets too, all listed on the Duncan name's own page.
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Where the Duncans lived
- 1
2242 Cambridge Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- John Duncan, of D & H Produce Co 1940
Next door in 1940: G B Stewart at 2234 and B Faulkner at 2254. The block, door by door
- 2
3673 Cambridge Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- J P Duncan, a clerk at Western City 1940
Next door in 1940: W T Garnier at 3649 and E F Hall at 3681. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a clerk.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. 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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John Duncan at 2242 Cambridge Street, of D & H Produce Co. J P Duncan is listed at 3673 Cambridge Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John P Duncan there as the householder, a clerk at Western City.
Today
3673 Cambridge still has its building from before 1946, dated 1934 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2242 Cambridge, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Duncan John of D & H Produce Co2242 Cambridge, p. 172
- Duncan J P3673 Cambridge, p. 25
- Duncan John P clk Western City3673 Cambridge, p. 172
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Duncans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Duncan 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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.