A family name on Pandora Street, Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland
The Kennedys
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Kennedy at two addresses in 1940, all on Pandora Street. 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 91 other streets too, all listed on the Kennedy name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
Where the Kennedys lived
- 1
2422 Pandora Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- A Kennedy, a trackman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: P R Bengough at 2416 and Mrs M Waddell at 2428. The block, door by door
- 2
3436 Pandora Street
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- W S Kennedy, a machinist at Morrison Steel 1940
Next door in 1940: E L Read at 3422 and S H Waterhouse at 3438. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a machinist and a trackman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (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
In 1940 the directory lists A Kennedy at 2422 Pandora Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alex Kennedy there as the householder, a trackman at the BC Electric Railway. In 1940 the directory lists W S Kennedy at 3436 Pandora Street. The 1940 name section lists Wesley S Kennedy there as the householder, a machinist at Morrison Steel.
Today
2422 Pandora and 3436 Pandora still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Kennedy A2422 Pandora, p. 125
- Kennedy Alex trackmn BCER2422 Pandora, p. 318
- Kennedy W S3436 Pandora, p. 125
- Kennedy Wesley S mach Morrison Steel3436 Pandora, 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.