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A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole

The Grahams

In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses

The directories print five people named Graham at five addresses in 1940, all on Granville Street, with the close spelling Grahame. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

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

    876 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Leonard Graham, a driller at the Vancouver Engineering Works 1940

    Next door in 1940: Bon Ton Pastry & Conf at 874 and Orpheum Theatre at 884. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1036 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Graham (no first name printed) 1940

    Next door in 1940: Love & Co at 1034 and Piano House Lewis at 1044. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1176 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Alex S Graham, a chauffeur at BC Motor Transportation 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Davis at 1168 and Peter Pan Cafe at 1180. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1221 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • A R Graham 1940

    Next door in 1940: Snap-On Tools of Can at 1211 and T Ishida at 1227. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    1261 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • William Graham, a janitor at the Newport Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Wosk's Ltd at 1259 and Crescent Furn at 1267. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a chauffeur, a driller and a janitor.

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 Leonard Graham at 876 Granville Street, a driller at the Vancouver Engineering Works. The 1940 name section lists Graham (no first name printed) at 1036 Granville Street. The 1940 name section lists Alex S Graham at 1176 Granville Street, a chauffeur at BC Motor Transportation. The 1940 name section lists A R Graham at 1221 Granville Street.

The 1940 name section lists William Graham at 1261 Granville Street, a janitor at the Newport Hotel.

Today

876 Granville, 1176 Granville, 1221 Granville and 1261 Granville still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1036 Granville, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Shops, parked cars and a few people on the 800 block of Granville Street on a Sunday
1923 Shops, parked cars and a few people on the 800 block of Granville Street on a Sunday. Taken on the 800 block; it doesn't single out the house at 876 Granville. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 677-954. Public domain.

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 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.