A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Grads
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Grad at one address, 2215 Stephens Street in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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The Grads at home
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2215 Stephens Street
Kitsilano, 1940
- R Grad, an operator at National Dress 1940
- Joseph Grad, a delivery for J G McPherson 1940
Next door in 1940: J Little at 2209 and J J Johnston at 2221. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a delivery and an operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 R Grad at 2215 Stephens Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Rueben Grad there as the householder, an operator at National Dress, with Joseph Grad, a delivery for J G McPherson.
Today
2215 Stephens still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Grad R2215 Stephens, p. 154
- Grad Jos del J G McPherson2215 Stephens, p. 233
- Grad Rueben opr Natl Dress2215 Stephens, p. 233
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Grads
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Grad 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.