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A family name on Ferndale Street, Grandview-Woodland

The Griffithses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Griffiths at two addresses in 1940, all on Ferndale Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Griffithses at 2212 Ferndale in 1940. The directories print the name on 61 other streets too, all listed on the Griffiths name's own page.

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Where the Griffithses 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

    1975 Ferndale Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A Griffiths, a printer at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Pover at 1965. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2212 Ferndale Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • J L Griffiths, a bookkeeper 1940
    • Marion Griffiths 1940
    • Mavis B I Griffiths, a saleswoman 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Bowcock at 2204 and J MacKenzie-White at 2244. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a bookkeeper, a printer and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 A Griffiths at 1975 Ferndale Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Arthur Griffiths there as the householder, a printer at the Vancouver General Hospital. In 1940 the directory lists J L Griffiths at 2212 Ferndale Street. The 1940 name section lists John L Griffiths there as the householder, a bookkeeper, with Marion Griffiths, and Mavis B I Griffiths, a saleswoman.

Today

1975 Ferndale still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 2212 Ferndale (2006) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Griffithses

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Griffiths 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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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.