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A family name on Commercial Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Victoria-Fraserview

The Moores

In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address

The directories print one person named Moore at one address, 6098 Commercial Street in Victoria-Fraserview, in 1940, with the close spelling More. The directories print the name on 142 other streets too, all listed on the Moore name's own page.

Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.

The Moores at home

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).
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    6098 Commercial Street

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • J F Moore, a laborer 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for the one person: a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Victoria-Fraserview. 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 J F Moore at 6098 Commercial Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John F Moore there as the householder, a laborer.

Today

6098 Commercial (2005) has a newer building, by the City's record.

The 3500 block of Commercial Street, looking north from 20th Avenue past the Bank of Hamilton
About 1913 The 3500 block of Commercial Street, looking north from 20th Avenue past the Bank of Hamilton. Not at the house at 6098 Commercial: no archive photo of the 6000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, LGN 504. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

The book of the Moores

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Moore 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.

We're opening orders soon. Join the list to be first in line; we expect about $29 a family.

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.