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A family name on East 54th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney

The Grays

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Gray at two addresses in 1940, all on East 54th 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 Grays at 725 East 54th in 1940. The directories print the name on 107 other streets too, all listed on the Gray name's own page.

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Where the Grays 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

    725 East 54th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Emily Gray 1940
    • Evelyn Gray 1940
    • John W Gray, a farmer 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Pitt at 741. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3436 East 54th Avenue

    Killarney, 1940

    • E L Gray, a caulker at the Burrard Dry Dock 1940

    Next door in 1940: G G Southwell at 3412 and T W Snowden at 3480. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a caulker and a farmer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Killarney and Sunset. 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 Emily Gray at 725 East 54th Avenue, with Evelyn Gray, and John W Gray, a farmer. E L Gray is listed at 3436 East 54th 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 Ernest L Gray there as the householder, a caulker at the Burrard Dry Dock.

Today

725 East 54th (1991) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3436 East 54th, 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Grays

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Gray name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.

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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.