A family name on West Hastings Street, Downtown
The Morgans
In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses
The directories print five people named Morgan at four addresses in 1940, all on West Hastings Street. 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 88 other streets too, all listed on the Morgan name's own page.
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Where the Morgans lived
- 1
53 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Henry Morgan 1940
- Peter Morgan, a shoemaker for P Paris 1940
Next door in 1940: Pierre Paris at 51 and Standard Electric & Radio Ltd at 55. The block, door by door
- 2
510 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- C D Morgan, a barber 1940
Next door in 1940: Can Bk of Commerce at 508 and Ziegler's Coffee Shop at 512. The block, door by door
- 3
850 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- J R Morgan, a log 1940
Next door in 1940: Rounsefell Ceperley at 846. The block, door by door
- 4
915 West Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Nancy Morgan, a housekeeper at the Vancouver Club 1940
Next door in 1940: Thompson & Graham at 901 and R S P Carruthers at 927. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a housekeeper and a shoemaker.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (4). 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 Henry Morgan at 53 West Hastings Street, with Peter Morgan, a shoemaker for P Paris. C D Morgan, a barber, is listed at 510 West Hastings Street in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists J R Morgan, a log, at 850 West Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Nancy Morgan at 915 West Hastings Street, a housekeeper at the Vancouver Club.
Today
53 West Hastings, 510 West Hastings, 850 West Hastings and 915 West Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946, 850 West Hastings and 915 West Hastings on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Morgan Henry53 West Hastings, p. 440
- Morgan Peter shoemkr P Paris53 West Hastings, p. 440
- Morgan C D barber510 West Hastings, p. 78
- Morgan J R log850 West Hastings, p. 81
- Morgan Nancy hsekpr Van Club915 West Hastings, p. 440
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Morgans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Morgan 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.