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A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Longs

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Long at two addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street. 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

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

    1244 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • D J Long, who worked for Restmore 1940

    Next door in 1940: Cedar Boat Wks at 1210 and H Miller at 1248. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2125 East Hastings Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • John Long, a fisherman 1940
    • William Long, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Amadatsu at 2163. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: an employee and a fisherman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 D J Long at 1244 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Doug J Long there as the householder, who worked for Restmore. The 1940 name section lists John Long at 2125 East Hastings Street, a fisherman, with William Long, a fisherman.

Today

The City no longer lists 1244 East Hastings and 2125 East Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 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 Longs

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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.