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A family name on Broughton Street, West End

The Gordons

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Gordon at four addresses in 1940, all on Broughton Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 106 other streets too, all listed on the Gordon name's own page.

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Where the Gordons 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

    619 Broughton Street

    West End, 1940

    • F M Gordon 1940
    • Hubert H Gordon, an elevator operator at the Regent Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: W A Dean at 627. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    825 Broughton Street

    West End, 1940

    • Arthur Gordon, a trucker at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: F C Williams at 823 and Miss E K MacLean at 883. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    850 Broughton Street

    West End, 1940

    • Jean Gordon, a bookkeeper at Singer Sewing Machines 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Halliday at 838 and Miss E I Skene at 874. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    908 Broughton Street

    West End, 1940

    • James Gordon 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A L Simpson at 912. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a bookkeeper, an elevator operator and a trucker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (4). 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 M Gordon at 619 Broughton Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank M Gordon there as the householder, with Hubert H Gordon, an elevator operator at the Regent Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Arthur Gordon at 825 Broughton Street, a trucker at the CPR. The 1940 name section lists Jean Gordon at 850 Broughton Street, a bookkeeper at Singer Sewing Machines.

The 1940 name section lists James Gordon at 908 Broughton Street.

Today

The City no longer lists 619 Broughton, 825 Broughton, 850 Broughton and 908 Broughton, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Gordons

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.