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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gillises

In the city directories 1940 · 64 addresses on 55 streets

The directories print the Gillis name at 64 addresses on 55 streets in 1940, in 17 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Gillies. 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 Gillises 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. Downtown13 addresses
  2. Kitsilano7 addresses
  3. Grandview-Woodland5 addresses
  4. Renfrew-Collingwood5 addresses
  5. Fairview4 addresses
  6. Riley Park4 addresses
  7. Shaughnessy4 addresses
  8. Dunbar-Southlands3 addresses
  9. Hastings-Sunrise3 addresses
  10. Kensington-Cedar Cottage3 addresses
  11. Mount Pleasant3 addresses
  12. West Point Grey3 addresses
  13. Strathcona2 addresses
  14. Victoria-Fraserview2 addresses
  15. Arbutus Ridge1 address
  16. Kerrisdale1 address
  17. Sunset1 address

Where the name was printed

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  1. 1
    Granville StreetFour addresses in Downtown and Fairview; four people: F Gillis, H Gillis and Katie Gillis, and one more
    1940
  2. 2
    Cornwall AvenueTwo addresses in Kitsilano; three people: D E Gillis, Doug Gillies and R K Gillis
    1940
  3. 3
    Cypress StreetTwo addresses in Shaughnessy; three people: Dr G E Gillies, Barbara Gillies and Mrs Fanny Gillies
    1940
  4. 4
    East 10th AvenueTwo addresses in Mount Pleasant; four people: C Gillies, Don Gillies and Robert K Gillies, and one more
    1940
  5. 5
    East 2nd AvenueTwo addresses in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise; two people: J L Gillis and John W Gillis
    1940
  6. 6
    West 8th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; three people: R Gillis, Robert Gillies and Katie Gillis
    1940
  7. 7
    West Georgia StreetTwo addresses in Downtown; four people: M A Gillis, B D Gillies and G E Gillies, and one more
    1940
  8. 8
    Alice StreetOne address in Kensington-Cedar Cottage; three people: Mrs A M Gillis, Kathleen M Gillis and Walter D Gillis
    1940
  9. 9
    Austrey AvenueOne address in Renfrew-Collingwood; one person: J Gillis
    1940
  10. 10
    Bute StreetOne address in Downtown; one person: C Hugh Gillis
    1940
  11. 11
    Dumfries StreetOne address in Victoria-Fraserview; two people: S Gillis and Frank S Gillis
    1940
  12. 12
    Dunbar StreetOne address in Dunbar-Southlands; two people: J Gillies and Katie F Gillies
    1940

43 more streets, by name: Dunsmuir Street (1), East 18th Avenue (1), East 24th Avenue (1), East 26th Avenue (1), East 28th Avenue (1), East 29th Avenue (1), East 3rd Avenue (1), East 52nd Avenue (1), East 57th Avenue (1), East Hastings Street (1), Euclid Avenue (1), Ferndale Street (1), Hamilton Street (1), Homer Street (1), Howe Street (1), John Street (1), Keefer Street (1), Kitchener Street (1), Larch Street (1), Laurier Avenue (1), Little Street (1), Manitoba Street (1), Marine Crescent (1), Oak Street (1), Powell Street (1), Seymour Street (1), Sophia Street (1), Trinity Street (1), Vernon Drive (1), West 10th Avenue (1), West 13th Avenue (1), West 14th Avenue (1), West 17th Avenue (1), West 19th Avenue (1), West 20th Avenue (1), West 2nd Avenue (1), West 39th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (1), West Broadway (1), West Cordova Street (1), Windsor Street (1), Woodland Drive (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 64 addresses, 27 still have their buildings from before 1946, ten have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 27; each street's page names them.

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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.