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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Goodings

In the city directories 1940 · eleven people at eight addresses

The directories print eleven people named Gooding at eight addresses in 1940 in six 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 Goodings lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3652 Dundas Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Margaret Gooding, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation 1940

    Next door in 1940: R S Sherman at 3642 and G S Ross at 3690. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    244 East 11th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Emma Gooding 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Amundsen at 228 and T J Dunstan at 246. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1860 East 2nd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • W C Gooding, a waiter at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: A L Lawrence at 1852 and H E Weedon at 1866. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1236 Melville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Miss E Gooding 1940
    • Edith Gooding 1940

    Next door in 1940: N Horuz at 1222 and H H Idle at 1238. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1352 West 10th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • W Gooding, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Roberts at 1350 and A Milloy at 1354. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    3565 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • E Gooding 1940
    • Rose Gooding, widow of E 1940

    Next door in 1940: H M Elms at 3557 and N MacDonald at 3573. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    1044 West Broadway

    Fairview, 1940

    • W F Gooding, a carpenter 1940
    • June E Gooding, a stenographer at Lumberman Printing 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D R Ellis at 1016 and Mrs M A Macdonald at 1054. The block, door by door

  8. 8

    515 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • W E Gooding, a driver at M T Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: Harling & Spragg at 513 and Harvey & Riach at 519. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the eleven: a carpenter, a conductor, a driver, a school teacher, a stenographer and a waiter. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2), Fairview (2), Grandview-Woodland, Hastings-Sunrise, Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. 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 Margaret Gooding at 3652 Dundas Street, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation. The 1940 name section lists Emma Gooding at 244 East 11th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists W C Gooding at 1860 East 2nd Avenue, a waiter at the CPR.

Miss E Gooding is listed at 1236 Melville Street in 1940; 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 lists Edith Gooding there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists W Gooding at 1352 West 10th Avenue, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway.

In 1940 the directory lists E Gooding at 3565 West 13th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Rose Gooding there as the householder, widow of E. In 1940 the directory lists W F Gooding at 1044 West Broadway. The 1940 name section lists Walter F Gooding there as the householder, a carpenter, with June E Gooding, a stenographer at Lumberman Printing.

The 1940 name section lists W E Gooding at 515 West Pender Street, a driver at M T Co.

Today

3652 Dundas, 1860 East 2nd and 3565 West 13th still have their buildings from before 1946; 1352 West 10th (1975) and 515 West Pender (1996) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 244 East 11th, 1236 Melville and 1044 West Broadway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 12 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

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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.