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A family name on Denman Street, West End

The Gardners

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Gardner at two addresses in 1940, all on Denman Street, with the close spellings Gardiner and Gardener. 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 59 other streets too, all listed on the Gardner name's own page.

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Where the Gardners 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

    1040 Denman Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs Della Gardiner 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Webber at 1034 and A Flett at 1048. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1047 Denman Street

    West End, 1940

    • L C Gardner, a machinist at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940

    Next door in 1940: A S Arkley at 1037 and Mrs M Z Rheinhart at 1055. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a machinist.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2). 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 Mrs Della Gardiner at 1040 Denman Street. L C Gardner is listed at 1047 Denman Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Leonard C Gardner there as the householder, a machinist at the Burrard Dry Dock.

Today

1047 Denman (1954) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1040 Denman, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Delivery trucks and a horse-drawn wagon outside shops built onto the front of houses in the 1000 block of Denman Street
1928 Delivery trucks and a horse-drawn wagon outside shops built onto the front of houses in the 1000 block of Denman Street. Taken on the 1000 block; it doesn't single out the house at 1047 Denman. City of Vancouver Archives, Str N267.1. 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 Gardners

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 G. Want a name removed? Tell us.