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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Forans

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Foran at four addresses in 1940 in four 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 Forans 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

    1120 Barclay Street

    West End, 1940

    • Dorothy Forran, a stenographer at Goodrich Rubber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Bierce at 1124. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5750 Hudson Street

    Oakridge, 1940

    • F J Foran, of F & F Equipment 1940

    Next door in 1940: D M Cameron at 5730 and W J Ridley at 5770. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    56 Powell Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Thomas E Foran 1940

    Next door in 1940: Spice Mills National at 54 and S Nabata at 58. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2055 West 16th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Thomas J Foran, a motor vehicle examiner at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: P H Allman at 2047 and Miss I R Russell at 2065. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a motor vehicle examiner and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Kitsilano, Oakridge 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 Dorothy Forran at 1120 Barclay Street, a stenographer at Goodrich Rubber. F J Foran is listed at 5750 Hudson 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 Frank J Foran there as the householder, of F & F Equipment. The 1940 name section lists Thomas E Foran at 56 Powell Street.

The 1940 name section lists Thomas J Foran at 2055 West 16th Avenue, a motor vehicle examiner at the City of Vancouver.

Today

5750 Hudson and 56 Powell still have their buildings from before 1946, 56 Powell on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 1120 Barclay (1964) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2055 West 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Hudson Street looking south toward the Eburne station, past the Hotel Eburne and parked cars
The 1910s Hudson Street looking south toward the Eburne station, past the Hotel Eburne and parked cars. Not at the house at 5750 Hudson: no archive photo of the 5700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 994. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Forans

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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.