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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gaetzes

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

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

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Where the Gaetzes 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

    1124 Burrard Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Ellen Gaetz, widow of M J 1940

    Next door in 1940: J McLaughlin at 1116 and Mrs M A Telford at 1134. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3570 West 22nd Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R J Gaetz, who worked for the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: R H Matthews at 3560 and S Turner at 3578. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an employee. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Ellen Gaetz at 1124 Burrard Street, widow of M J. R J Gaetz is listed at 3570 West 22nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Robert J Gaetz there as the householder, who worked for the BC Telephone.

Today

The City no longer lists 1124 Burrard and 3570 West 22nd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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 Gaetzes

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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 G. Want a name removed? Tell us.