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A family name on Fraser Street, Sunset, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Grays

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Gray at two addresses in 1940, all on Fraser Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    3755 Fraser Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • W Gray 1940
    • G A Gray, an elevator operator at the Metro Building 1940
  2. 2

    4940 Fraser Street

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • T B Gray, a superintendent at the Mountain View Cemetery 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Head at 4974. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an elevator operator and a superintendent.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 G A Gray at 3755 Fraser Street. By 1940 it is W Gray. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Wallace Gray there as the householder, with George A Gray, an elevator operator at the Metro Building.

T B Gray is listed at 4940 Fraser Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Thomas B Gray there as the householder, a superintendent at the Mountain View Cemetery.

Today

3755 Fraser (1992) and 4940 Fraser (1993) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street
17 March 1936 The Hilton Dairy staff lined up outside the dairy at 6395 Fraser Street. Not at the house at 3755 Fraser: no archive photo of the 3700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4867. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 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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Another name, or a house

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.