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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Ginthers

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Ginther at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Ginthers 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

    4479 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W L Ginther, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Law at 4473 and A J Harvey at 4487. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    844 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Emil Ginther, a laborer at Mohawk Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: Van Umbrella Mfg Co at 842 and M Uyesugi at 890. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a laborer and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown and Riley Park. 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 L Ginther at 4479 Quebec Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists W Lorne Ginther there as the householder, a school teacher. The 1940 name section lists Emil Ginther at 844 West Pender Street, a laborer at Mohawk Lumber.

Today

4479 Quebec (1996) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 844 West Pender, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 4479 Quebec: no archive photo of the 4400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Ginthers

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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.