A family name on East 38th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Longs
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Long at two addresses in 1940, all on East 38th Avenue. 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 45 other streets too, all listed on the Long name's own page.
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Where the Longs lived
- 1
1841 East 38th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- James H Long, a department manager at Safeway 1940
Next door in 1940: T S Armstrong at 1817 and F G Long at 1851. The block, door by door
- 2
1851 East 38th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- F G Long, a shoe repairer 1940
Next door in 1940: P Gidinski at 1841 and J W Houston at 1861. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a department manager and a shoe repairer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists James H Long at 1841 East 38th Avenue, a department manager at Safeway. F G Long is listed at 1851 East 38th 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 Francis G Long there as the householder, a shoe repairer.
Today
1841 East 38th (2010) and 1851 East 38th (1978) 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.
- Long Jas H dept mgr Safeway1841 East 38th, p. 354
- *Long F G1851 East 38th, p. 254
- Long Francis G shoe repr 325 Cariboo1851 East 38th, p. 354
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Longs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Long 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.