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A family name on West 18th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Grants

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Grant at three addresses in 1940, all on West 18th 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    376 West 18th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Ian M Grant, of Grant & Son 1940

    Next door in 1940: J K Bogart at 362. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4007 West 18th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • G Grant, an engineer at Chanticleer Lunch 1940

    Next door in 1940: J G Brisco at 4009. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4047 West 18th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • G R Grant, who worked for BC Fir 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W H Anderson at 4043 and Mrs M Currie at 4053. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: an engineer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (2) and Riley Park. 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 Ian M Grant at 376 West 18th Avenue, of Grant & Son. G Grant is listed at 4007 West 18th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists George Grant there as the householder, an engineer at Chanticleer Lunch.

G R Grant is listed at 4047 West 18th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists George R Grant there as the householder, who worked for BC Fir.

Today

376 West 18th (1979), 4007 West 18th (2005) and 4047 West 18th (2020) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

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, 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.