A family name on West 19th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge
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 West 19th Avenue. 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
- 1
73 West 19th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- Mrs Irma Kennedy, a stenographer 1940
Next door in 1940: W H McKenzie at 69 and H S Trumpour at 79. The block, door by door
- 2
- 3
3996 West 19th Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- J A Kennedy, a salesman at International Harvester 1940
Next door in 1940: J G Dyer at 3990. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a laborer, a salesman and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park and South Cambie. 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 Mrs Irma Kennedy at 73 West 19th Avenue, a stenographer. J Kennedy is listed at 599 West 19th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John Kennedy there as the householder, a laborer at the Mountain View Cemetery.
J A Kennedy is listed at 3996 West 19th 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 John A Kennedy there as the householder, a salesman at International Harvester.
Today
73 West 19th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 599 West 19th (1996) and 3996 West 19th (2021) have newer buildings, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- KENNEDY Mrs Irma sten73 West 19th, p. 319
- Kennedy J599 West 19th, p. 229
- Kennedy John lab Mtn View Cemetery599 West 19th, p. 319
- *Kennedy J A3996 West 19th, p. 229
- Kennedy John A slsmn Intl Harvester3996 West 19th, p. 319
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.