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A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Dunns

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Dunn at two addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings 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 51 other streets too, all listed on the Dunn name's own page.

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Where the Dunns 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

    456 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • John Dunn, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: J P Nelson at 454 and A Lantz at 458. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2415 East Hastings Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • F Dunn 1940
    • Mrs Blanche G Dunn, who worked for Bertha Dalglish Cosmetic Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: Rotary Bky at 2411 and Circulating Library Gresham at 2417. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an employee and a longshoreman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise and Strathcona. 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 Dunn at 456 East Hastings Street, a longshoreman. F Dunn is listed at 2415 East Hastings Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frank Dunn there as the householder, with Mrs Blanche G Dunn, who worked for Bertha Dalglish Cosmetic Shop.

Today

456 East Hastings and 2415 East Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Dunns

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Dunn 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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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.