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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Geaches

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Geach 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 Geaches lived

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

    6198 Beatrice Street

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • C Geach, a police officer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: A C Buckolz at 6190. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2203 Pine Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • C Geach 1940
    • Lillian Geach, a laundress at Peerless Laundry 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Hill at 2213. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a laundress and a police officer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and Victoria-Fraserview. 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

In 1940 the directory lists C Geach at 6198 Beatrice Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Charles Geach there as the householder, a police officer at the City of Vancouver. In 1940 the directory lists C Geach at 2203 Pine Street. The 1940 name section lists Charles Geach there as the householder, with Lillian Geach, a laundress at Peerless Laundry.

Today

6198 Beatrice (1986) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2203 Pine, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Mr. and Mrs. William Hunt and their wedding party on the steps of Holy Trinity Church
3 June 1901 Mr. and Mrs. William Hunt and their wedding party on the steps of Holy Trinity Church. Not at the house at 2203 Pine: no archive photo of the 2200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Ch P12. 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, street section

The book of the Geaches

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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.