A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Gordons
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Gordon at two addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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
- 1
245 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Miss P Gordon 1940
Next door in 1940: Belmont Rooms at 241 and Main Electric at 247. The block, door by door
- 2
1168 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- G Gordon, a cook 1940
Next door in 1940: Natl Dairies Ltd at 1132 and D McM Blackstock at 1172. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a cook.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (2). 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 Miss P Gordon at 245 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists G Gordon at 1168 East Hastings Street, a cook.
Today
245 East Hastings and 1168 East Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Gordon Miss P245 East Hastings, p. 74
- Gordon G cook1168 East Hastings, p. 230
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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Another name, or a house
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.