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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Goffs

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

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

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Where the Goffs 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

    1700 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • Annie Goff 1940

    Next door in 1940: T C Kerr at 1716. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1764 Haro Street

    West End, 1940

    • F W Goff, a receiver at Gault Bros 1940
    • Mrs Evangeline M Goff, a manager at the Aylesleigh Apartments 1940

    Next door in 1940: C J Stanton at 1750 and 9 listings at 1772. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2500 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Barnard Goff, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Dier at 2524. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a manager, an on active service and a receiver.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2) 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Annie Goff at 1700 Haro Street. F W Goff is listed at 1764 Haro Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Francis W Goff there as the householder, a receiver at Gault Bros, with Mrs Evangeline M Goff, a manager at the Aylesleigh Apartments. The 1940 name section lists Barnard Goff at 2500 West 1st Avenue, on active service.

Today

The City no longer lists 1700 Haro, 1764 Haro and 2500 West 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Goffs

Every directory, as one book

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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.