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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gontases

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Gontas at one address, 1228 East 27th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940.

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The Gontases at home

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).
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    1228 East 27th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • T Gontas, a janitor at Canadian Bakeries 1940
    • Jean Gontas, an examiner at the Jantzen Knit Mills 1940
    • Louis Gontas, a presser at the Jantzen Knit Mills 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Webster at 1204 and J W Woods at 1236. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an examiner, a janitor and a presser. Two of them worked for Jantzen Knit Mills.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 T Gontas at 1228 East 27th 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 Thomas Gontas there as the householder, a janitor at Canadian Bakeries, with Jean Gontas, an examiner at the Jantzen Knit Mills, and Louis Gontas, a presser at the Jantzen Knit Mills.

Today

1228 East 27th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record.

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 Gontases

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.