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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Goldstraws

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Goldstraw 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 Goldstraws 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

    2136 East 13th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • F Goldstraw, a machinist for Sigurdson Millwork 1940
    • Cedric Goldstraw, an engineer at Sylvia Court 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Shawcross at 2128 and J F Cashman at 2140. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1154 Gilford Street

    West End, 1940

    • W Goldstraw, an engineer at Sylvia Court 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L Foerster at 1106. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an engineer (2) and a machinist. Two of them worked for Sylvia Court.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and West End. 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 F Goldstraw at 2136 East 13th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Frederick Goldstraw there as the householder, a machinist for Sigurdson Millwork, with Cedric Goldstraw, an engineer at Sylvia Court. In 1940 the directory lists W Goldstraw at 1154 Gilford Street. The 1940 name section lists Wilfred Goldstraw there as the householder, an engineer at Sylvia Court.

Today

1154 Gilford still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 2136 East 13th (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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, street section

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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.