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A family name on Main Street, Riley Park, Strathcona, Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

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 Main 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.

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Where the Greens 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

    2303 Main Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • N Green, an engineer 1940
    • Mrs Margaret Green, a manager at the Shannon Apartments 1940

    Next door in 1940: Clapp's Shoe Store at 2301 and W F Graham at 2313. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3302 Main Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • John H Green, proprietor of Green's Hardware 1940

    Next door in 1940: Old Country Meat Mkt at 3304. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: an engineer, a manager and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and Riley Park. 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 N Green at 2303 Main Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Norris Green there as the householder, an engineer, with Mrs Margaret Green, a manager at the Shannon Apartments. The 1940 name section lists John H Green at 3302 Main Street, proprietor of Green's Hardware.

Today

2303 Main still has its building from before 1946, dated 1905 by the City's record; 3302 Main (1982) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 2303 Main: no archive photo of the 2300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Greens

Every directory, as one book

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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.