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A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Greens

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at six addresses

The directories print seven people named Green at six addresses in 1940, all on West 12th Avenue, 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

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

    434 West 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Margaret L H Green, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M C Coleman at 426 and 4 listings at 444. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    665 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Alice M Green 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E W Redgrave at 655 and J Gibson at 675. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1176 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss M A Green 1940
    • Margery A Green, a stenographer at Canada Life 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M A Flower at 1156 and montrose apartments at 1190. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1290 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Gren, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Lawson at 1272 and Miss C M Thornton at 1296. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3557 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A E Green, a mechanic at Begg Motor 1940

    Next door in 1940: H A Palmer at 3549 and Mrs E L Pope at 3569. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    4558 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • H J Green, a fireman at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: N A Akins at 4552 and W S Ptolemy at 4566. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: a fireman, a mechanic, a nurse, a salesman and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (3), Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Margaret L H Green at 434 West 12th Avenue, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital. The 1940 name section lists Alice M Green at 665 West 12th Avenue. In 1940 the directory lists Miss M A Green at 1176 West 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Margery A Green there as the householder, a stenographer at Canada Life.

The 1940 name section lists Gren at 1290 West 12th Avenue, a salesman. A E Green is listed at 3557 West 12th Avenue in 1940; 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 Alex E Green there as the householder, a mechanic at Begg Motor.

H J Green is listed at 4558 West 12th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Hilbert J Green there as the householder, a fireman at the City of Vancouver.

Today

434 West 12th, 1176 West 12th, 3557 West 12th and 4558 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946, 434 West 12th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 665 West 12th and 1290 West 12th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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

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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.