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A family name on West 3rd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview 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 3rd 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: four Grays at 4311 West 3rd 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

    2151 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Vincent K Gray, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Woodhouse at 2147 and Mrs M Meagher at 2165. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4311 West 3rd Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • A Gray, a salesman for A Murray 1940
    • D Harry Gray, a student 1940
    • Helen Gray, a student 1940
    • Molly Gray, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Jarman at 4309 and E J Leake at 4329. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4626 West 3rd Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J S Gray, a salesman at S H Lennard & Co 1940
    • Moyra Gray, a telephone operator at Macaulay Nicolls Maitland 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs N M Watson at 4618 and A F Frattinger at 4636. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a salesman (2), an accountant, a stenographer and a telephone operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West Point Grey (2) and Kitsilano. 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 Vincent K Gray at 2151 West 3rd Avenue, an accountant. A Gray is listed at 4311 West 3rd 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 Andrew Gray there as the householder, a salesman for A Murray, with D Harry Gray, a student, Helen Gray, a student, and Molly Gray, a stenographer.

J S Gray is listed at 4626 West 3rd Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists James S Gray there as the householder, a salesman at S H Lennard & Co, with Moyra Gray, a telephone operator at Macaulay Nicolls Maitland.

Today

4311 West 3rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; 4626 West 3rd (1989) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2151 West 3rd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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

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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.