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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gungs

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Gung at three addresses in 1940 in three 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 Gungs 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

    193 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • E B Gung, a physician 1940

    Next door in 1940: Fraser Shoe Repair Co at 191 and Hospital Doll at 195. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    557 East Pender Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Dr E B Gung, a physician 1940

    Next door in 1940: I Hosang at 563. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    9154 Hudson Street

    Marpole, 1940

    • M K Gung, in dry goods 1940

    Next door in 1940: Columbia Cafe at 9144. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a physician.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Marpole and Strathcona. 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 E B Gung, a physician, at 193 East Hastings Street. Dr E B Gung is listed at 557 East Pender Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edward B Gung there as the householder, a physician. M K Gung, in dry goods, is listed at 9154 Hudson Street in 1940.

Today

557 East Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 193 East Hastings and 9154 Hudson, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 557 East Pender: no archive photo of the 500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. 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 Gungs

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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.