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

The Kennedys

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Kennedy at one address, 2130 Napier Street in Grandview-Woodland, 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

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).
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    2130 Napier Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R Kennedy, a salesman for A R Williams 1940
    • C Dorothy Kennedy, an artist 1940
    • Colin R Kennedy, a warehouseman for A R Williams 1940
    • Lillian M Kennedy, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: H B Vicars at 2124 and J McNeill at 2136. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an artist, a salesman and a warehouseman. Two of them worked for A R Williams.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 R Kennedy at 2130 Napier Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert Kennedy there as the householder, a salesman for A R Williams, with C Dorothy Kennedy, an artist, Colin R Kennedy, a warehouseman for A R Williams, and Lillian M Kennedy, a student.

Today

2130 Napier still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.

Houses along Napier Street, looking west from Lakewood Drive
1932 Houses along Napier Street, looking west from Lakewood Drive. Taken where the 2100 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 2130 Napier. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4167. Public domain.

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, 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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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.