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A family name on West 17th Avenue, South Cambie, Riley Park, Shaughnessy, Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands

The Grants

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Grant at two addresses in 1940, all on West 17th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Grants at 4086 West 17th 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

    4068 West 17th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • H L Grant, a helper at Sitka Spruce Lumber 1940

    Next door in 1940: F W Switzer at 4064 and D R Tweedy at 4074. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4086 West 17th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • Miss B Grant 1940
    • Belle Grant, a bookkeeper at the Dominion Income Tax 1940
    • Anne E Grant, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: R A Brown at 4084 and R G Stong at 4094. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a bookkeeper, a helper and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2). 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 H L Grant at 4068 West 17th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Henry L Grant there as the householder, a helper at Sitka Spruce Lumber. In 1940 the directory lists Miss B Grant at 4086 West 17th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Belle Grant there as the householder, a bookkeeper at the Dominion Income Tax, with Anne E Grant, a stenographer.

Today

4068 West 17th (2001) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 4086 West 17th, 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.