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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Kenneths

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Kenneth at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Kenneths 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

    519 Hamilton Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Albert E Kenneth, a deckhand at the Union Steamship Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: City Dye Works at 517 and Pac Gar at 523. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2236 West 34th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • R Kenneth, a manufacturer 1940

    Next door in 1940: J L Bamford at 2222 and J Williams at 2250. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a deckhand and a manufacturer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Downtown. 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 Albert E Kenneth at 519 Hamilton Street, a deckhand at the Union Steamship Company. R Kenneth is listed at 2236 West 34th 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 Robert Kenneth there as the householder, a manufacturer.

Today

2236 West 34th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 519 Hamilton, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Kenneths

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.