A family name on East 2nd Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise
The Greens
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Green at two addresses in 1940, all on East 2nd Avenue, 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.
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Where the Greens lived
- 1
1349 East 2nd Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- L B Green, a piler 1940
Next door in 1940: J Hodgson at 1337. The block, door by door
- 2
2156 East 2nd Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Green (no first name printed) 1940
- Green (no first name printed), a farmer 1940
Next door in 1940: S G Moyer at 2146 and I Thompson at 2162. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a farmer and a piler.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (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 L B Green at 1349 East 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Leslie B Green there as the householder, a piler. In 1940 the directory lists Green (no first name printed) at 2156 East 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Green (no first name printed) there as the householder, a farmer.
Today
1349 East 2nd (1987) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2156 East 2nd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Green L B1349 East 2nd, p. 175
- Green Leslie B piler HM Shingle1349 East 2nd, p. 239
- Green —2156 East 2nd, p. 175
- Green — — farmer2156 East 2nd, p. 238
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.