A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Greens
In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses
The directories print four people named Green at three addresses in 1940, all on Kingsway, with the close spelling Gren. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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
504 Kingsway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- George Green, retired 1940
Next door in 1940: Globe Furniture at 546. The block, door by door
- 2
- 3
3154 Kingsway
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- J F Green, a fireman at the City of Vancouver 1940
- M Joyce Green 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs A Engelland at 3162. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a confectioner and a fireman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 George Green at 504 Kingsway, retired. The 1940 name section lists Parrot Green at 1115 Kingsway, a confectioner. In 1940 the directory lists J F Green at 3154 Kingsway; 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 Joseph F Green there as the householder, a fireman at the City of Vancouver, with M Joyce Green.
Today
3154 Kingsway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1932 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 504 Kingsway and 1115 Kingsway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Green Geo retired504 Kingsway, p. 238
- Green Parrot conf1115 Kingsway, p. 239
- *Green J F3154 Kingsway, p. 99
- Green Jos F firmn Van City3154 Kingsway, p. 239
- Green M Joyce3154 Kingsway, 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.