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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Dundases

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at five addresses

The directories print seven people named Dundas at five addresses in 1940 in five of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Dundases 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

    1300 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Sarah E Dundas 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs G Drew at 1330. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    152 East 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W Dundas, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: F T Moore at 142 and van evangelistic tab at 154. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4862 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W Dundas, a swamper at Marpole Coal 1940
    • James Dundas 1940

    Next door in 1940: V W Williams at 4844 and A Andrews at 4880. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    656 Seymour Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • H Dundas, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Boe B Ltd at 652 and Gestetner D (Can) Ltd at 660. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    998 West 19th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • A Dundas, a meat cutter 1940
    • Shirley S Dundas, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A T Worth at 994. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: a laborer, a meat cutter, a stenographer and a swamper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park, South Cambie and West End. 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 Sarah E Dundas at 1300 Bute Street. W Dundas is listed at 152 East 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Wallace Dundas there as the householder, a laborer.

W Dundas is listed at 4862 Quebec Street in 1940; 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 lists William Dundas there as the householder, of Third & Dundas, with William Dundas Jr, a swamper at Marpole Coal, and James Dundas. The 1940 name section lists H Dundas at 656 Seymour Street, retired.

In 1940 the directory lists A Dundas at 998 West 19th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Adam Dundas there as the householder, a meat cutter, with Shirley S Dundas, a stenographer.

Today

4862 Quebec (1996) and 998 West 19th (1984) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1300 Bute, 152 East 10th and 656 Seymour, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 4862 Quebec: no archive photo of the 4800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 11 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 Dundases

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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.