A family name on West Georgia Street, Downtown and West End
The Longs
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Long at one address, 1201 West Georgia Street in Downtown, in 1940. The directories print the name on 45 other streets too, all listed on the Long name's own page.
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The Longs at home
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1201 West Georgia Street
Downtown, 1940
- W P Long, of Talk of the Town Cafe 1940
- Cath E Long, a waitress at Marine Spot 1940
- Verna E Long, of Talk of the Town Cafe 1940
Next door in 1940: Auto Reconditioning at 1219. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a waitress. Two of them worked for Talk of the Town Cafe.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists W P Long at 1201 West Georgia Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William P Long there as the householder, of Talk of the Town Cafe, with Cath E Long, a waitress at Marine Spot, and Verna E Long, of Talk of the Town Cafe.
Today
1201 West Georgia still has its building from before 1946, dated 1911 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Long W P1201 West Georgia, p. 58
- Long Cath E waitress Marine Spot1201 West Georgia, p. 354
- Long Verna E of Talk of the Town Cafe1201 West Georgia, p. 354
- Long Wm P of Talk of the Town Cafe1201 West Georgia, p. 354
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.