A family name on Chester Street, Sunset and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Kennedys
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Kennedy at one address, 6307 Chester Street in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 91 other streets too, all listed on the Kennedy name's own page.
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The Kennedys at home
- 1
6307 Chester Street
Sunset, 1940
- J G Kennedy, a watchman at the Anthes-Tait Foundry 1940
- Andrew Kennedy, a moulder at the Anthes-Tait Foundry 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs H M Gulliford at 6317. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a moulder and a watchman. Two of them worked for Anthes-Tait Foundry.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 J G Kennedy at 6307 Chester Street; 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 Joseph G Kennedy there as the householder, a watchman at the Anthes-Tait Foundry, with Andrew Kennedy, a moulder at the Anthes-Tait Foundry.
Today
6307 Chester still has its building from before 1946, dated 1916 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Kennedy J G6307 Chester, p. 30
- Kennedy Andw mldr Anthes-Tait Fndy6307 Chester, p. 318
- Kennedy Jos G wtchmn Anthes-Tait Fndy6307 Chester, p. 319
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Kennedys
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Kennedy 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 K. Want a name removed? Tell us.