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A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole

The Gordons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named Gordon at five addresses in 1940, all on Granville 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. 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

    1025 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Earl A Gordon, who worked for Gordon & Belyea 1940
    • F Gordon, a clerk 1940

    Next door in 1940: W C Stearman at 1023 and Plaza Hotel at 1029. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1125 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • W E Gordon 1940

    Next door in 1940: Hemenway & Son at 1123 and L N Gowdy at 1127. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1221 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Colin Gordon, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Snap-On Tools of Can at 1211 and T Ishida at 1227. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1390 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • James Gordon, who worked for Vancouver Breweries 1940

    Next door in 1940: Laidler G F Co at 1378 and Curtis Mtrs at 1396. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2022 Granville Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • William Gordon, a driver at Holmes & Wilson 1940

    Next door in 1940: Sun Wing Fur Co at 2020. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: an employee (2), a clerk, a driver and a longshoreman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (4) and Fairview. 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 Earl A Gordon at 1025 Granville Street, who worked for Gordon & Belyea, with F Gordon, a clerk. The 1940 name section lists W E Gordon at 1125 Granville Street. The 1940 name section lists Colin Gordon at 1221 Granville Street, a longshoreman. The 1940 name section lists James Gordon at 1390 Granville Street, who worked for Vancouver Breweries.

The 1940 name section lists William Gordon at 2022 Granville Street, a driver at Holmes & Wilson.

Today

1025 Granville, 1125 Granville and 1221 Granville still have their buildings from before 1946, 1025 Granville on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1390 Granville and 2022 Granville, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk
1917 Riders in uniform lead a parade along Granville Street, past crowds on the sidewalk. Not at the house at 1025 Granville: no archive photo of the 1000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-350. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.