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A family name on Dunbar Street, Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano

The Gordons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Gordon at one address, 3322 Dunbar Street in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940. The directories print the name on 106 other streets too, all listed on the Gordon name's own page.

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The Gordons 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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    3322 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W Gordon, an operator at the BC Telephone 1940
    • Mrs I F Gordon, in hardware 1940
    • Byron S Gordon, a clerk at M-W Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: Safeway Stores at 3308 and Cavin Dairy at 3336. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a hardware and an operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Mrs I F Gordon, in hardware, at 3322 Dunbar Street; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). By 1940 it is W Gordon; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Gordon there as the householder, with Mrs Isabella F Gordon, in hardware, W Archibald Gordon, Wilhelmina B Gordon, an operator at the BC Telephone, and Byron S Gordon, a clerk at M-W Ltd.

Today

3322 Dunbar (1947) has a newer building, by the City's record.

A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows
1940 A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows. Not at the house at 3322 Dunbar: no archive photo of the 3300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.530. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 7 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

The family book reads the Gordon name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.