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A family name on East 8th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Grants

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Grant at three addresses in 1940, all on East 8th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Grants at 663 East 8th 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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Where the Grants 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

    322 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mildred C Grant, widow of R A C 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Gaskell at 316 and F A Stride at 330. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    663 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • G Grant, proprietor of Mayfair Candy Co 1940
    • Margaret Grant, widow of J 1940
    • William Grant, a helper at Mayfair Candy 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J D McMillan at 659 and Miss E B Matheson at 683. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    876 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Effie Grant 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss L Ludlow at 870. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a helper and a proprietor. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3). 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 Mildred C Grant at 322 East 8th Avenue, widow of R A C. G Grant is listed at 663 East 8th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists George Grant there as the householder, proprietor of Mayfair Candy Co, with Margaret Grant, widow of J, and William Grant, a helper at Mayfair Candy. The 1940 name section lists Effie Grant at 876 East 8th Avenue.

Today

322 East 8th (1968) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 663 East 8th and 876 East 8th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Grants

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.