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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Gyleses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

The directories print four people named Gyles at four 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 Gyleses 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

    4362 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • G F Gyles, who worked for Price Waterhouse & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: K J Burns at 4326 and E E Sykes at 4388. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5010 Blenheim Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C H Gyles, an accountant at Price Waterhouse & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M C MacDonald at 5030. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4562 Pine Crescent

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • N G Gyles 1940

    Next door in 1940: C R Mann at 4538. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2823 Triumph Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Hazel Gyles, a waitress at C N Institute 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Hemsill at 2817 and A L McKeddie at 2829. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: an accountant and a waitress. Two of them worked for Price Waterhouse & Co.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (2), Dunbar-Southlands and Hastings-Sunrise. 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 G F Gyles at 4362 Angus Drive; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists George F Gyles there as the householder, who worked for Price Waterhouse & Co. In 1940 the directory lists C H Gyles at 5010 Blenheim Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Cedric H Gyles there as the householder, an accountant at Price Waterhouse & Co.

In 1940 the directory lists N G Gyles at 4562 Pine Crescent. The 1940 name section lists Hazel Gyles at 2823 Triumph Street, a waitress at C N Institute.

Today

4362 Angus Drive, 5010 Blenheim and 2823 Triumph still have their buildings from before 1946; 4562 Pine Crescent (2013) has a newer building, by the City's record.

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 4362 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 4300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

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 Gyleses

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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.