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

The Moores

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Moore at three addresses in 1940, all on Franklin 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 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1732 Franklin Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Irene Moore, a dispatcher at Safe-Way Taxi 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Towler at 1730 and M Okohori at 1756. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2547 Franklin Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • W Moore, an egg candler at Burns & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: G W Hunter at 2539 and V Masi at 2555. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2624 Franklin Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • C G Moore, an engineer at the Exhibition Forum 1940

    Next door in 1940: A D Hynes at 2616 and Mrs A M Legg at 2640. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a dispatcher, an egg candler and an engineer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (2) and Grandview-Woodland. 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 Irene Moore at 1732 Franklin Street, a dispatcher at Safe-Way Taxi. W Moore is listed at 2547 Franklin Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William Moore there as the householder, an egg candler at Burns & Co.

C G Moore is listed at 2624 Franklin Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists C George Moore there as the householder, an engineer at the Exhibition Forum.

Today

2624 Franklin still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record; 2547 Franklin (2007) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1732 Franklin, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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.