A family name on Turner Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland
The Grahams
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Graham at one address, 2540 Turner Street in Hastings-Sunrise, 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
Sunrise
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2540 Turner Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- D Graham, a helper at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940
- Cathryn D Graham, a stenographer at Truck Parts & Equipment 1940
Next door in 1940: W M Allardyce at 2534 and J P McDonald at 2544. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a helper and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Hastings-Sunrise. 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 D Graham at 2540 Turner Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists David Graham there as the householder, a helper at the Burrard Dry Dock, with Cathryn D Graham, a stenographer at Truck Parts & Equipment.
Today
2540 Turner still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Graham D2540 Turner, p. 158
- Graham Cathryn D sten Truck Parts & Equip2540 Turner, p. 233
- Graham David hlpr Burrard Dry Dock2540 Turner, p. 233
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.