A family name on West 14th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Grahams
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Graham at three addresses in 1940, all on West 14th Avenue, 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
- 1
116 West 14th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Muriel Graham, a janitor at the Medical-Dental Building 1940
Next door in 1940: F Lilley at 112 and Mrs E Brodie at 118. The block, door by door
- 2
1466 West 14th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- M Graham 1940
Next door in 1940: J Potter at 1446 and classic (the) at 1476. The block, door by door
- 3
4195 West 14th Avenue
West Point Grey, 1940
- W Graham, a route supervisor at Jersey Farms 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs R V Mutch at 4187. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a janitor and a route supervisor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Fairview, Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Muriel Graham at 116 West 14th Avenue, a janitor at the Medical-Dental Building. M Graham is listed at 1466 West 14th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists M Graham there as the householder.
W Graham is listed at 4195 West 14th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists William Graham there as the householder, a route supervisor at Jersey Farms.
Today
4195 West 14th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 116 West 14th and 1466 West 14th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Graham Muriel jntr Medical-Dental Bldg116 West 14th, p. 234
- Graham M1466 West 14th, p. 216
- Graham M1466 West 14th, p. 234
- *Graham W4195 West 14th, p. 217
- Graham Wm route supvr Jersey Farms4195 West 14th, 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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Another name, or a house
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.