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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Garfs

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Garf 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. The most under one roof: four Garfs at 2144 East 10th in 1940.

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Where the Garfs 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

    2520 Columbia Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • William J Garf, an ironworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Court at 2532. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2144 East 10th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • C Garf 1940
    • Alex Garf, a steelworker 1940
    • Robert C Garf, a steelworker 1940
    • Violet Garf, a factory worker for Royal Crown 1940

    Next door in 1940: J R Hutchison at 2116 and A Summers at 2148. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a steelworker (2), a factory worker and an ironworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Mount Pleasant. 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 William J Garf at 2520 Columbia Street, an ironworker. C Garf is listed at 2144 East 10th Avenue 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 Charles Garf there as the householder, with Alex Garf, a steelworker, Robert C Garf, a steelworker, and Violet Garf, a factory worker for Royal Crown.

Today

2144 East 10th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1906 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2520 Columbia, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Garfs

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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.