A family name on West 21st Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge
The Gibsons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Gibson at one address, 3421 West 21st Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, 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
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3421 West 21st Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- Mrs M Gibson, widow of W 1940
- John Gibson, a clerk 1940
Next door in 1940: E W Liechti at 3413 and Miss M Taylor at 3431. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a clerk. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Mrs M Gibson at 3421 West 21st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Magdelene Gibson there as the householder, widow of W, with John Gibson, a clerk.
Today
3421 West 21st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Gibson Mrs M3421 West 21st, p. 233
- Gibson John clk3421 West 21st, p. 222
- Gibson Magdelene wid W3421 West 21st, 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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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.