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A family name on Thurlow Street, West End and Downtown

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 Thurlow 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

    855 Thurlow Street

    West End, 1940

    • Miss M A Gray 1940
    • Margaret A Gray, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation 1940

    Next door in 1940: G A Burton at 811 and 21 listings at 859. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1089 Thurlow Street

    West End, 1940

    • Mrs A Gray, widow of J 1940
    • Edgar Gray, a machinist 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M G Hogg at 1083. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a machinist and a school teacher. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (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 Miss M A Gray at 855 Thurlow Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Margaret A Gray there as the householder, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs A Gray, rooms to let, at 1089 Thurlow Street. The 1940 name section lists Alice Gray there, widow of J, with Edgar Gray, a machinist.

Today

855 Thurlow still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1089 Thurlow, 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 Grays

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.