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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Nords

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Nord at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Nords 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

    1783 East 37th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • N Albert Nord, a chairman at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Thomson at 1773 and W H R Mason at 1789. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6037 Marguerite Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • S E Nord, a general manager at Standard Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: M J Bolduc at 6011 and F C Brown at 6081. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a chairman and a general manager.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Kerrisdale. 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 N Albert Nord at 1783 East 37th Avenue, a chairman at Canadian White Pine. S E Nord is listed at 6037 Marguerite Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Swan E Nord there as the householder, a general manager at Standard Oil.

Today

1783 East 37th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 6037 Marguerite, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A shingled house with a For Sale sign at 6385 Marguerite Street
4 November 1931 A shingled house with a For Sale sign at 6385 Marguerite Street. Not at the house at 6037 Marguerite: no archive photo of the 6000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4092. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Nords

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 N. Want a name removed? Tell us.