A family name on Granville Street, Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Oakridge and Marpole
The Moffats
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Moffat at one address, 3751 Granville Street in Shaughnessy, in 1940, with the close spelling Moffatt. The directories print the name on 42 other streets too, all listed on the Moffat name's own page.
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The Moffats at home
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3751 Granville Street
Shaughnessy, 1940
- Dr W A Moffatt, of Moffatt, Moffatt & Robertson 1940
- Don W Moffatt, a physician at Moffatt, Moffatt & Robertson 1940
- Ethel G Moffatt, a school teacher 1940
- Muriel M Moffatt, a school teacher 1940
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a school teacher (2) and a physician. Two of them worked for Vancouver City.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 Dr W A Moffatt at 3751 Granville Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William A Moffatt there as the householder, of Moffatt, Moffatt & Robertson, with Don W Moffatt, a physician at Moffatt, Moffatt & Robertson, Ethel G Moffatt, a school teacher, and Muriel M Moffatt, a school teacher.
Today
3751 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1922 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Moffatt Dr W A3751 Granville, p. 68
- Moffatt Don W phys Moffatt, Moffatt & Robertson3751 Granville, p. 435
- Moffatt Ethel G sch tchr Van City3751 Granville, p. 435
- Moffatt Muriel M sch tchr Van City3751 Granville, p. 436
- Moffatt Wm A of Moffatt, Moffatt & Robertson3751 Granville, p. 436
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Moffats
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Moffat 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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.