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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park 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 Quebec 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

    4399 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Burton Green, a helper at Nicola Meat Market 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Bullard at 4389. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    7197 Quebec Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • J W Green, retired 1940
    • Thomas H Green, a clerk at the CNR 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Malcolm at 7153. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a helper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park and Sunset. 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 Burton Green at 4399 Quebec Street, a helper at Nicola Meat Market. J W Green is listed at 7197 Quebec Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John W Green there as the householder, retired, with Thomas H Green, a clerk at the CNR.

Today

4399 Quebec still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 7197 Quebec, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 7197 Quebec: no archive photo of the 7100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.