A family name on Adera Street, Kerrisdale and Marpole
The Grants
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Grant at one address, 6337 Adera Street in Kerrisdale, in 1940. The directories print the name on 123 other streets too, all listed on the Grant name's own page.
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The Grants at home
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6337 Adera Street
Kerrisdale, 1940
- W A Grant, a plant superintendent at Grant & Sons and a secretary at the Brewer Building Co 1940
- Gordon Grant, a helper at Grant & Sons 1940
- Robert J Grant, a salesman at Grant & Sons 1940
Next door in 1940: W F Stewart at 6311 and S H Small at 6341. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a helper, a plant superintendent and a salesman. Two of them worked for Grant & Sons.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kerrisdale. 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 W A Grant at 6337 Adera Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists William A Grant there as the householder, a plant superintendent at Grant & Sons and a secretary at the Brewer Building Co, with Gordon Grant, a helper at Grant & Sons, and Robert J Grant, a salesman at Grant & Sons.
Today
6337 Adera still has its building from before 1946, dated 1930 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Grant W A6337 Adera, p. 2
- Grant Gordon hlpr Grant & Sons6337 Adera, p. 235
- Grant Robt J slsmn Grant & Sons6337 Adera, p. 236
- Grant Wm A plant supt Grant & Sons and sec Brewer Bldg Co6337 Adera, p. 236
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Grants
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Grant 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.