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A family name on West 8th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Gordons

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Gordon at two addresses in 1940, all on West 8th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Gordons at 3708 West 8th 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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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

    1140 West 8th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • John Gordon 1940

    Next door in 1940: L L Brown at 1110. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3708 West 8th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • A A Gordon, a salesman 1940
    • Arthur W Gordon, a musician 1940
    • Irene Gordon, a parceller at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: E C Lockey at 3720. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a musician, a parceller and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview and West Point Grey. 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 John Gordon at 1140 West 8th Avenue. A A Gordon is listed at 3708 West 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Arthur A Gordon there as the householder, a salesman, with Arthur W Gordon, a musician, and Irene Gordon, a parceller at Spencer's.

Today

1140 West 8th (1991) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3708 West 8th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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.