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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Generals

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named General at three addresses in 1940 in two 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 Generals 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

    325 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Offices General, who worked for Captain J Fripps inspector 1940
  2. 2

    525 Seymour Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Accident Assce General 1940

    Next door in 1940: H V Tuff at 523 and Georgian Garage at 541. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4517 West 10th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Produce General 1940

    Next door in 1940: Safeway Stores at 4513 and W J Rogers at 4519. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) and West Point Grey. 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 Offices General at 325 Granville Street, who worked for Captain J Fripps inspector. Accident Assce General is listed at 525 Seymour Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Produce General at 4517 West 10th Avenue.

Today

525 Seymour still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 325 Granville and 4517 West 10th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk
1917 Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk. Not at the house at 325 Granville: no archive photo of the 300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-350. 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 Generals

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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.