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A family name on West 2nd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Hunters

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Hunter at two addresses in 1940, all on West 2nd Avenue. 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 Hunters at 4727 West 2nd in 1940. 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

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

    2207 West 2nd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Dorothy M Hunter, a maid for G W Ramsay 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Little at 2225. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4727 West 2nd Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • R Hunter, a secretary-treasurer at Restmore 1940
    • Kathleen N Hunter, a stenographer 1940
    • Virginia Hunter, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: G F Hale at 4721 and J Rae at 4735. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all four: a stenographer (2), a maid and a secretary-treasurer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano and West Point Grey. 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 Dorothy M Hunter at 2207 West 2nd Avenue, a maid for G W Ramsay. R Hunter is listed at 4727 West 2nd 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 Robert Hunter there as the householder, a secretary-treasurer at Restmore, with Kathleen N Hunter, a stenographer, and Virginia Hunter, a stenographer.

Today

4727 West 2nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1915 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 2207 West 2nd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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

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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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.