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

The Moores

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Moore at three addresses in 1940, all on East Pender Street, with the close spelling More. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Moores at 2564 East Pender in 1940. The directories print the name on 142 other streets too, all listed on the Moore name's own page.

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Where the Moores lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    982 East Pender Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • George Moore 1940

    Next door in 1940: “Orientals” at 976. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2564 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • B E Moore, proprietor of Vancouver Crumpetry 1940
    • Peggy Moore, a waitress 1940
    • Renee Moore, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: H S Brock at 2558 and A J McDole at 2592. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3368 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Robert Moore, an oiler at BC Cement 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Davis at 3360 and J W Hearn at 3376. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: an oiler, a proprietor and a waitress.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (2) 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George Moore at 982 East Pender Street. B E Moore is listed at 2564 East Pender Street 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 Bert E Moore there as the householder, proprietor of Vancouver Crumpetry, with Peggy Moore, a waitress, and Renee Moore, a student. The 1940 name section lists Robert Moore at 3368 East Pender Street, an oiler at BC Cement.

Today

2564 East Pender still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 982 East Pender and 3368 East Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 2564 East Pender: no archive photo of the 2500 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Moores

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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.