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A family name on West 36th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Kings

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named King at two addresses in 1940, all on West 36th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Kings at 2160 West 36th in 1940. The directories print the name on 111 other streets too, all listed on the King name's own page.

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Where the Kings 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

    2049 West 36th Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • H M King, a professor at UBC 1940
    • David King, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: F L Mitchell at 2041 and G Hood at 2057. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2160 West 36th Avenue

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • A E King, a salesman 1940
    • Bert A King, a serviceman at the Refreshment Service 1940
    • Doreen A King, a stenographer at Leckie 1940
    • Norman F King, a doorman at the Broadway Theatre 1940

    Next door in 1940: C H Hall at 2150 and Mrs G P Hibbert at 2172. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: a doorman, a professor, a salesman, a serviceman and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Shaughnessy. 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 H M King at 2049 West 36th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Harry M King there as the householder, a professor at UBC, with David King, a student. In 1940 the directory lists A E King at 2160 West 36th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Albert E King there as the householder, a salesman, with Bert A King, a serviceman at the Refreshment Service, Doreen A King, a stenographer at Leckie, and Norman F King, a doorman at the Broadway Theatre.

Today

2049 West 36th and 2160 West 36th still have their buildings from before 1946, 2049 West 36th on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Kings

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.