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A family name on West 11th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Grants

In the city directories 1940 · six people at four addresses

The directories print six people named Grant at four addresses in 1940, all on West 11th 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 1462 West 11th 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

    1365 West 11th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs Marie Granat, a social worker at Childrens Aid 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Strath at 1357 and T Myles at 1373. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1462 West 11th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Alison J P Grant, a packer at Birks 1940
    • Annie Grant, widow of A 1940
    • Jessie E Grant, a branch manager for B M Clarke 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J Attridge at 1454. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1557 West 11th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Frances Grant 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss W A Diebolt at 1549 and J E Kidd at 1563. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4078 West 11th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • S Grant 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Pixley at 4070 and D D Robinson at 4086. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a branch manager, a packer and a social worker. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (3) 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 Mrs Marie Granat at 1365 West 11th Avenue, a social worker at Childrens Aid. The 1940 name section lists Alison J P Grant at 1462 West 11th Avenue, a packer at Birks, with Annie Grant, widow of A, and Jessie E Grant, a branch manager for B M Clarke. The 1940 name section lists Frances Grant at 1557 West 11th Avenue.

S Grant is listed at 4078 West 11th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Stewart Grant there as the householder.

Today

1365 West 11th and 4078 West 11th still have their buildings from before 1946; 1462 West 11th (1966) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1557 West 11th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 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

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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.