A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Greens
In the city directories 1940 · 177 addresses on 111 streets
The directories print the Green name at 177 addresses on 111 streets in 1940, in 20 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Gren. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.
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Where the Greens lived
- West End22 addresses
- Kitsilano20 addresses
- Downtown17 addresses
- Kensington-Cedar Cottage17 addresses
- Mount Pleasant15 addresses
- Fairview11 addresses
- Riley Park11 addresses
- West Point Grey10 addresses
- Grandview-Woodland9 addresses
- Dunbar-Southlands7 addresses
- Hastings-Sunrise7 addresses
- Renfrew-Collingwood7 addresses
- Killarney4 addresses
- Strathcona4 addresses
- Sunset4 addresses
- Victoria-Fraserview4 addresses
- Marpole3 addresses
- South Cambie3 addresses
- Kerrisdale1 address
- Shaughnessy1 address
Where the name was printed
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- 1West 12th AvenueSix addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; seven people: A E Green, H J Green, Alice M Green and four more1940
- 2West 8th AvenueSix addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; eight people: C G Green, E Green, H C Green and five more1940
- 3West 13th AvenueFive addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; five people: E Green, J W Green, Mrs L A Green and two more1940
- 4West 21st AvenueFour addresses in Riley Park and Dunbar-Southlands; six people: C J Green, W A Green, Charles A Green and three more1940
- 5Comox StreetThree addresses in West End; three people: J F Green, Green (no first name printed) and Mrs Mary R Green1940
- 6East 15th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant; four people: J E Green, Mrs M A Green, Elizabeth J Green and one more1940
- 7East 23rd AvenueThree addresses in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood; three people: W L H Green, F T Green and Daniel R Green1940
- 8East Georgia StreetThree addresses in Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise; six people: J G Green, M Green, Christina M Green and three more1940
- 9Granville StreetThree addresses in Downtown and Fairview; three people: H R Green, H W Green and Spot Green1940
- 10Haro StreetThree addresses in West End; four people: Dorothy E Green, Eleanor Green, Elizabeth H Green and one more1940
- 11KingswayThree addresses in Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood; four people: J F Green, George Green, M Joyce Green and one more1940
- 12Sophia StreetThree addresses in Riley Park; three people: Mrs K Green, Amelia A Green and Ellwood Green1940
99 more streets, by name: Aberdeen Street (1), Adanac Street (1), Alberta Street (2), Arbutus Street (1), Argyle Street (1), Balaclava Street (1), Barclay Street (2), Bidwell Street (1), Broughton Street (2), Bursill Street (1), Bute Street (2), Carrall Street (1), Commercial Street (2), Cornwall Avenue (2), Cypress Street (1), Davie Street (1), Denman Street (1), Dunbar Street (1), Dundas Street (2), East 14th Avenue (1), East 18th Avenue (1), East 20th Avenue (1), East 24th Avenue (1), East 26th Avenue (1), East 27th Avenue (1), East 28th Avenue (2), East 2nd Avenue (2), East 31st Avenue (1), East 37th Avenue (1), East 39th Avenue (2), East 44th Avenue (2), East 45th Avenue (1), East 46th Avenue (1), East 4th Avenue (1), East 51st Avenue (1), East 59th Avenue (1), East 60th Avenue (2), East 6th Avenue (2), East 7th Avenue (2), East 8th Avenue (1), Gladstone Street (1), Heatley Avenue (1), Hemlock Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Howe Street (1), Jervis Street (1), Kaslo Street (1), Kirkland Street (1), Lanark Street (1), Lillooet Street (1), Main Street (2), Melville Street (1), Morton Avenue (1), Nanaimo Street (1), Napier Street (1), Nelson Street (2), North Slocan Street (1), Odlum Drive (1), Ontario Street (2), Pacific Street (1), Parker Street (2), Pendrell Street (1), Perry Street (1), Point Grey Road (2), Powell Street (1), Prince Edward Street (1), Quebec Street (2), Richards Street (2), Robson Street (2), Rossland Street (1), Seymour Street (1), Templeton Drive (1), Vernon Drive (1), Victoria Drive (1), Water Street (1), Waterloo Street (1), West 10th Avenue (1), West 11th Avenue (3), West 14th Avenue (3), West 15th Avenue (3), West 16th Avenue (1), West 18th Avenue (1), West 19th Avenue (1), West 20th Avenue (2), West 23rd Avenue (1), West 37th Avenue (1), West 41st Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (2), West 62nd Avenue (1), West 63rd Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (2), West 72nd Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (1), West Broadway (1), West Cordova Street (1), West Georgia Street (1), West Hastings Street (1), West King Edward Avenue (1), West Pender Street (3).
Today
By the City's record, of the 177 addresses, 58 still have their buildings from before 1946, 49 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 70; each street's page names them.
The book of the Greens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Green 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 (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under G. Want a name removed? Tell us.