A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole
The Littles
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Little at three addresses in 1940, all on Granville Street. 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 51 other streets too, all listed on the Little name's own page.
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Where the Littles lived
- 1
543 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- G Little, a manufacturers agent 1940
Next door in 1940: Leather Gds Burns at 541 and L C Fraser at 545. The block, door by door
- 2
736 Granville Street
Downtown, 1940
- Ken W Little, a supervisor at the National Institute of Music 1940
Next door in 1940: Nippon Silk Co at 732 and Mayfair Style Shop at 738. The block, door by door
- 3
3380 Granville Street
Shaughnessy, 1940
- Reginald J Little, a gardener at Hon A M Morrison 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs N McK Lang at 3338. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a gardener and a supervisor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (2) 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 G Little, a manufacturers agent, at 543 Granville Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ken W Little at 736 Granville Street, a supervisor at the National Institute of Music. The 1940 name section lists Reginald J Little at 3380 Granville Street, a gardener at Hon A M Morrison.
Today
736 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; 543 Granville (1995) and 3380 Granville (2002) have newer buildings, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Little G mfrs agt543 Granville, p. 63
- Little Ken W supvr Natl Inst of Mus736 Granville, p. 351
- Little Regd J gdnr Hon A M Morrison3380 Granville, p. 351
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Littles
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Little 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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.