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A family name on Alberta Street, Mount Pleasant

The Grahams

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Graham at one address, 2936 Alberta Street in Mount Pleasant, in 1940, with the close spelling Grahame. The directories print the name on 116 other streets too, all listed on the Graham name's own page.

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The Grahams at home

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).
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    2936 Alberta Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • H M Graham, an electrician at the Graham Electric 1940
    • Charles B Graham, a foreman at the Graham Electric 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Angus at 2924. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: an electrician and a foreman. Two of them worked for Graham Electric.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 H M Graham at 2936 Alberta Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists H Maurice Graham there as the householder, an electrician at the Graham Electric, with Charles B Graham, a foreman at the Graham Electric.

Today

The City no longer lists 2936 Alberta, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Harry and Mary Foote's house at 2812 Alberta Street, with people on its porch and balconies
About 1911 Harry and Mary Foote's house at 2812 Alberta Street, with people on its porch and balconies. Not at the house at 2936 Alberta: no archive photo of the 2900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2012-004.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Grahams

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.