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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gibsons

In the city directories 1940 · 104 addresses on 77 streets

The directories print the Gibson name at 104 addresses on 77 streets in 1940, in 19 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Gibsons lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. Mount Pleasant11 addresses
  2. Downtown10 addresses
  3. Fairview9 addresses
  4. West End9 addresses
  5. Renfrew-Collingwood8 addresses
  6. Victoria-Fraserview8 addresses
  7. Kensington-Cedar Cottage7 addresses
  8. Dunbar-Southlands6 addresses
  9. Kitsilano6 addresses
  10. West Point Grey6 addresses
  11. Grandview-Woodland5 addresses
  12. Marpole4 addresses
  13. Strathcona4 addresses
  14. Hastings-Sunrise3 addresses
  15. Arbutus Ridge2 addresses
  16. Riley Park2 addresses
  17. Sunset2 addresses
  18. Killarney1 address
  19. Shaughnessy1 address

Where the name was printed

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  1. 1
    West 10th AvenueFour addresses in Fairview; six people: Dr R Gibson, Mrs M Gibson, James W Gibson and three more
    1940
  2. 2
    West 13th AvenueFour addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; seven people: Mrs M S Gibson, P J Gibson, Doreen E Gibson and four more
    1940
  3. 3
    West 35th AvenueThree addresses in Dunbar-Southlands; four people: C A Gibson, J Gibson, Patricia Gibson and one more
    1940
  4. 4
    Barclay StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: C A Gibson and H A Gibson
    1940
  5. 5
    Broughton StreetTwo addresses in West End; two people: Mrs A C Gibson and John Gibson
    1940
  6. 6
    East 11th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant; two people: A W Gibson and Thomas Gibson
    1940
  7. 7
    East 20th AvenueTwo addresses in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood; five people: H Gibson, Mrs S Gibson, Anita F Gibson and two more
    1940
  8. 8
    East 28th AvenueTwo addresses in Renfrew-Collingwood; two people: C Gibson and T Y Gibson
    1940
  9. 9
    East 37th AvenueTwo addresses in Kensington-Cedar Cottage; three people: G N Gibson, W Gibson and Walter N Gibson
    1940
  10. 10
    East 51st AvenueTwo addresses in Sunset and Victoria-Fraserview; four people: A W Gibson, Mrs E Gibson, Eva M Gibson and one more
    1940
  11. 11
    East Hastings StreetTwo addresses in Strathcona; two people: J Gibson and James Gibson
    1940
  12. 12
    Franklin StreetTwo addresses in Strathcona and Grandview-Woodland; two people: J Gibson and Mrs S Gibson
    1940

65 more streets, by name: Abbott Street (1), Alma Street (1), Atlin Street (1), Carolina Street (1), Carrall Street (1), Clark Drive (1), Commercial Drive (1), Connaught Drive (1), Davie Street (1), Drummond Drive (1), Dumfries Street (1), Dunsmuir Street (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 12th Avenue (1), East 13th Avenue (1), East 18th Avenue (1), East 19th Avenue (1), East 26th Avenue (1), East 34th Avenue (1), East 44th Avenue (1), East 46th Avenue (1), East 47th Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (1), Eton Street (1), Fairmont Street (1), Ferndale Street (1), Fleming Street (1), Garden Drive (1), Granville Street (1), Graveley Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Hudson Street (1), Jervis Street (1), Keefer Street (1), Kitchener Street (1), Lanark Street (2), Main Street (2), Manor Street (1), Oak Street (1), Pacific Street (1), Pendrell Street (2), Point Grey Road (1), Quebec Street (1), Ross Street (1), Victoria Drive (2), Vine Street (1), Wallace Crescent (1), West 12th Avenue (2), West 14th Avenue (2), West 18th Avenue (1), West 21st Avenue (1), West 34th Avenue (1), West 36th Avenue (1), West 37th Avenue (1), West 3rd Avenue (2), West 4th Avenue (2), West 59th Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (1), West 71st Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (2), West Cordova Street (1), West Georgia Street (1), West Pender Street (2).

Today

By the City's record, of the 104 addresses, 39 still have their buildings from before 1946, 30 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 35; each street's page names them.

The book of the Gibsons

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under G. Want a name removed? Tell us.