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A family name on Angus Drive, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy and Marpole

The Hunters

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Hunter at two addresses in 1940, all on Angus Drive. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 118 other streets too, all listed on the Hunter name's own page.

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Where the Hunters lived

  1. 1

    6430 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • Mrs Ella M Hunter 1940
  2. 2

    6942 Angus Drive

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • A B Hunter, a salesman 1940
    • David Hunter, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Bagshaw at 6926 and Dr D B Collison at 6958. The block, door by door

What they did

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

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale (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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Ella M Hunter at 6430 Angus Drive. A B Hunter is listed at 6942 Angus Drive 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 A Browne Hunter there as the householder, a salesman, with David Hunter, retired.

Today

The City no longer lists 6430 Angus Drive and 6942 Angus Drive, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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 6942 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 6900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. 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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Hunters

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Hunter 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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Another name, or a house

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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.