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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gribbens

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Gribben at three addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Gribbens 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

    1346 East Georgia Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J Gribben, a millworker at Hammonds 1940

    Next door in 1940: S Toyama at 1342 and J Carr at 1348. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2115 West 13th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • F Gribben, a gardener 1940

    Next door in 1940: T M Fairgrieve at 2105 and G E Sanderson at 2125. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1894 West 7th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Joseph Gribben, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Hair at 1890. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a gardener, a longshoreman and a millworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 J Gribben at 1346 East Georgia Street, a millworker at Hammonds. F Gribben is listed at 2115 West 13th 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 Frederick Gribben there as the householder, a gardener. The 1940 name section lists Joseph Gribben at 1894 West 7th Avenue, a longshoreman.

Today

1894 West 7th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1346 East Georgia and 2115 West 13th, so those buildings are 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Gribbens

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.