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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Farrands

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Farrand at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Farrands lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Two addresses aren't on today's map, so they have no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    5826 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Charles J S Farrand, a barrister 1940

    Next door in 1940: S A Horner at 5846. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4796 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Frank Farrand, a motorman at CN Express 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Martin at 4764. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    744 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • C J S Farrand, a barrister 1940

    Next door in 1940: Tiny's Coffee Shop at 740. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a barrister and a motorman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Kerrisdale and Riley Park. 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 Charles J S Farrand at 5826 Angus Drive, a barrister. The 1940 name section lists Frank Farrand at 4796 Quebec Street, a motorman at CN Express. In 1940 the directory lists C J S Farrand, a barrister, at 744 West Hastings Street.

Today

4796 Quebec and 744 West Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946; 5826 Angus Drive (2012) has a newer building, by the City's record.

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 5826 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 5800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

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 Farrands

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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.