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A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Kennedys

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Kennedy at three addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 91 other streets too, all listed on the Kennedy name's own page.

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Where the Kennedys 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

    160 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Roderick Kennedy, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Royal Thea Barber Shop at 146 and Regent Hotel Shoe Shine at 162. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    177 East Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Wally Kennedy 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Johnson at 175 and Pool Room Hastings at 179. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3478 East Hastings Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Mrs J Kennedy, widow of R 1940

    Next door in 1940: L B Foley at 3434. The block, door by door

What they did

One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (2) 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Roderick Kennedy at 160 East Hastings Street, retired. The 1940 name section lists Wally Kennedy at 177 East Hastings Street. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs J Kennedy at 3478 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Jean Kennedy there as the householder, widow of R.

Today

160 East Hastings and 177 East Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 3478 East Hastings, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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 Kennedys

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 K. Want a name removed? Tell us.