A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Grahns
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Grahn at one address, 610 Jervis Street in Downtown, in 1940.
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The Grahns at home
- 1
610 Jervis Street
Downtown, 1940
- S A Grahn, an engineer at The Felix 1940
- Beryl D Grahn, an elevator operator at The Felix 1940
Next door in 1940: W G Brown at 626. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an elevator operator and an engineer. Two of them worked for The Felix.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 S A Grahn at 610 Jervis Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Sanford A Grahn there as the householder, an engineer at The Felix, with Beryl D Grahn, an elevator operator at The Felix.
Today
610 Jervis still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Grahn S A610 Jervis, p. 91
- Grahn Beryl D elev opr The Felix610 Jervis, p. 234
- Grahn Sanford A eng The Felix610 Jervis, p. 234
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Grahns
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Grahn 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.