A family name on Hornby Street, Downtown
The Gibsons
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Gibson at one address, 1352 Hornby Street in Downtown, in 1940. The directories print the name on 76 other streets too, all listed on the Gibson name's own page.
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The Gibsons at home
- 1
1352 Hornby Street
Downtown, 1940
- J C Gibson, a porter at the CPR 1940
- Hugh C Gibson, a laborer at National Waste Manufacturing 1940
- Janet B S Gibson, a saleswoman at English Toffee Shop 1940
- Robert B Gibson, an elevator operator at the Irwinton Apartments 1940
- Rosina M Gibson, a laundress at Pioneer Laundry 1940
Next door in 1940: Columbia Prntg Ink at 1350 and R W Thomas at 1356. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all five: an elevator operator, a laborer, a laundress, a porter and a saleswoman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 J C Gibson at 1352 Hornby Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James C Gibson there as the householder, a porter at the CPR, with Hugh C Gibson, a laborer at National Waste Manufacturing, Janet B S Gibson, a saleswoman at English Toffee Shop, Robert B Gibson, an elevator operator at the Irwinton Apartments, and Rosina M Gibson, a laundress at Pioneer Laundry.
Today
The City no longer lists 1352 Hornby, 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.
- Gibson J C1352 Hornby, p. 86
- Gibson Hugh C lab Natl Waste Mfg1352 Hornby, p. 222
- Gibson Jas C porter CPR1352 Hornby, p. 222
- Gibson Janet B S slswm English Toffee Shop1352 Hornby, p. 222
- Gibson Robt B elev opr Irwinton Apts1352 Hornby, p. 222
- Gibson Rosina M lndrs Pioneer Lndy1352 Hornby, p. 222
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Gibsons
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Gibson name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.