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A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Grants

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Grant at three addresses in 1940, all on West 12th Avenue. 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 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

    444 West 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J C Grant, a salesman at BC Box 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs G D McLennan at 434 and R F Sheward at 454. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1724 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Duncan C Grant, a clerk at the Bank of Toronto 1940

    Next door in 1940: F L McNeill at 1712 and G H Fry at 1736. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3862 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Mrs E Grant 1940
    • William L Grant, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Yellowlees at 3856 and Mrs A C Smith at 3866. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a clerk, a salesman and a school teacher.

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

In 1940 the directory lists J C Grant at 444 West 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John C Grant there as the householder, a salesman at BC Box. The 1940 name section lists Duncan C Grant at 1724 West 12th Avenue, a clerk at the Bank of Toronto. The 1940 name section lists Mrs E Grant at 3862 West 12th Avenue, with William L Grant, a school teacher.

Today

444 West 12th and 3862 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1724 West 12th, so that building is 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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.