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A family name on West Georgia Street, Downtown and West End

The Gordons

In the city directories 1940 · eight people at five addresses

The directories print eight people named Gordon at five addresses in 1940, all on West Georgia Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Gordons at 1201 West Georgia 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

    801 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs W G R Gordon 1940

    Next door in 1940: devonshire hotel at 849. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1167 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • James Gordon, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs W Hall at 1163. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1201 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • G Gordon, a clerk 1940
    • Mrs E M Gordon, widow of C 1940
    • Edith Gordon, an elevator operator at Vancouver Block 1940
    • Eileen F Gordon, an operator at B C Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: Auto Reconditioning at 1219. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1241 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Olive M Gordon, a nurse at the Victorian Order of Nurses 1940

    Next door in 1940: Walmsley Motors at 1233 and Mrs M A Ferguson at 1259. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1356 West Georgia Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Anna Gordon, widow of T R 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E S Mackintosh at 1344 and Mrs M Sagar at 1360. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the eight: a clerk, an elevator operator, a nurse and an operator. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (5). 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 Mrs W G R Gordon at 801 West Georgia Street. The 1940 name section lists James Gordon at 1167 West Georgia Street, retired.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs E M Gordon at 1201 West Georgia Street. By 1940 it is G Gordon. The 1940 name section lists George Gordon there as the householder, a clerk, with Erma M Gordon, widow of C, Edith Gordon, an elevator operator at Vancouver Block, and Eileen F Gordon, an operator at B C Telephone. The 1940 name section lists Olive M Gordon at 1241 West Georgia Street, a nurse at the Victorian Order of Nurses.

The 1940 name section lists Anna Gordon at 1356 West Georgia Street, widow of T R.

Today

801 West Georgia and 1201 West Georgia still have their buildings from before 1946, both on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1167 West Georgia, 1241 West Georgia and 1356 West Georgia, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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.