A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Grahams
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Graham at two addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street, with the close spelling Grahame. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 116 other streets too, all listed on the Graham name's own page.
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Where the Grahams lived
- 1
764 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Irene Graham, a clerk at Hastings Steam Baths 1940
Next door in 1940: N F Taggart at 750 and J Wepsala at 768. The block, door by door
- 2
1182 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Robert W Graham, a boomman at Hammond Hardwood 1940
Next door in 1940: D McM Blackstock at 1172 and C Taylor at 1188. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a boomman and a clerk.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (2). 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 Irene Graham at 764 East Hastings Street, a clerk at Hastings Steam Baths. The 1940 name section lists Robert W Graham at 1182 East Hastings Street, a boomman at Hammond Hardwood.
Today
The City no longer lists 764 East Hastings and 1182 East Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Graham Irene clk Hastings Steam Baths764 East Hastings, p. 233
- Graham Robt W boomn Hammond Hardwood1182 East Hastings, p. 234
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Grahams
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Graham 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.