A family name on Barclay Street, West End
The Greens
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Green at two addresses in 1940, all on Barclay Street, with the close spelling Gren. 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 110 other streets too, all listed on the Green name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
Where the Greens lived
- 1
1440 Barclay Street
West End, 1940
- E H Green, a fur operator at the Hudson's Bay Company 1940
Next door in 1940: B Bernhardt at 1436. The block, door by door
- 2
1447 Barclay Street
West End, 1940
- Kathleen A Green, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: Marlyn (The) at 1433 and G W Weeks at 1459. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a fur operator.
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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists E H Green at 1440 Barclay Street, a fur operator at the Hudson's Bay Company. The 1940 name section lists Kathleen A Green at 1447 Barclay Street, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway.
Today
1447 Barclay still has its building from before 1946, on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1440 Barclay, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Green E H fur opr HBC1440 Barclay, p. 238
- Green Kathleen A clk BCER1447 Barclay, p. 239
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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: 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.