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A family name on West 3rd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Gibsons

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Gibson at two addresses in 1940, all on West 3rd Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 76 other streets too, all listed on the Gibson name's own page.

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Where the Gibsons 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

    1507 West 3rd Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • W W Gibson, a driver at Budd's Cartage 1940

    Next door in 1940: I Kobayashi at 1519. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3549 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H R Gibson, a carpenter at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J J Edmonds at 3543 and R W Joslin at 3557. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a carpenter and a driver.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and Kitsilano. 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 W W Gibson at 1507 West 3rd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Woodrow W Gibson there as the householder, a driver at Budd's Cartage. In 1940 the directory lists H R Gibson at 3549 West 3rd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists Hope R Gibson there as the householder, a carpenter at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

3549 West 3rd (1988) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1507 West 3rd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

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.