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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Germyns

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Germyn at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Germyns 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

    2112 Napier Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs Doris K Germyn 1940

    Next door in 1940: J M Enga at 2106 and H B Vicars at 2124. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    430 Princess Avenue

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Mrs R A Germyn 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Marsh at 408. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    53 West 7th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C L Germyn, a dairyman at the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Charlesworth at 45 and P Nessenbaum at 59. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a dairyman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Strathcona. 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 Doris K Germyn at 2112 Napier Street. Mrs R A Germyn is listed at 430 Princess Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Rose A Germyn there as the householder.

C L Germyn is listed at 53 West 7th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Clayton L Germyn there as the householder, a dairyman at the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association.

Today

2112 Napier and 430 Princess still have their buildings from before 1946, 430 Princess on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 53 West 7th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Germyns

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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.