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A family name on West 10th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Grays

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at three addresses

The directories print seven people named Gray at three addresses in 1940, all on West 10th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Grays at 2365 West 10th 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    138 West 10th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Helen C Gray 1940
    • William Gray, a mechanic 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E J McNair at 130 and F W Welsh at 140. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2365 West 10th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • P G Gray, retired 1940
    • Herbert R A Gray, a bookkeeper at Placer Development 1940
    • Joan Gray, a clerk at the BC Telephone 1940

    Next door in 1940: A McKenzie at 2355 and G A Griffin at 2375. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4270 West 10th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Edna Gray, a stenographer 1940
    • Johan A I Gray, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: H A Young at 4266 and Mrs A M Walman at 4276. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a stenographer (2), a bookkeeper, a clerk and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Helen C Gray at 138 West 10th Avenue, with William Gray, a mechanic. P G Gray is listed at 2365 West 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Patrick G Gray there as the householder, retired, with Herbert R A Gray, a bookkeeper at Placer Development, and Joan Gray, a clerk at the BC Telephone. The 1940 name section lists Edna Gray at 4270 West 10th Avenue, a stenographer, with Johan A I Gray, a stenographer.

Today

138 West 10th and 4270 West 10th still have their buildings from before 1946, 138 West 10th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 2365 West 10th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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

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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.