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A family name on East 13th Avenue, Mount Pleasant and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Duncans

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Duncan at two addresses in 1940, all on East 13th Avenue. 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

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

    643 East 13th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Jean J Duncan, widow of G A 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Spillett at 617 and A R Cook at 649. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    737 East 13th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Elizabeth Duncan, widow of J 1940
    • May M Duncan, a maid for J Ellip 1940

    Next door in 1940: A A Moul at 729 and D Campbell at 743. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a maid. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Jean J Duncan at 643 East 13th Avenue, widow of G A. The 1940 name section lists Elizabeth Duncan at 737 East 13th Avenue, widow of J, with May M Duncan, a maid for J Ellip.

Today

643 East 13th and 737 East 13th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Duncans

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 D. Want a name removed? Tell us.