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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Randolphs

In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses

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

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Where the Randolphs 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

    1746 Commercial Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • A Randolph 1940

    Next door in 1940: Grandview Furn at 1740 and C Ahone at 1748. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1143 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Doratha Randolph, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: A G Montgomery at 1141 and J M Olsen at 1145. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1542 East 1st Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • F Randolph, a waiter at the Clarence Refreshment Parlor 1940

    Next door in 1940: F D Bell at 1536 and J Ryan at 1550. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    5884 Inverness Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • Mrs Etta Randolph 1940

    Next door in 1940: H E Pearson at 5874 and G H Pike at 5894. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a saleswoman and a waiter.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2), Sunset and West End. 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 A Randolph at 1746 Commercial Drive. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Doratha Randolph at 1143 Comox Street, a saleswoman at Woodward's. In 1940 the directory lists F Randolph at 1542 East 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Randolph there as the householder, a waiter at the Clarence Refreshment Parlor.

The 1940 name section lists Mrs Etta Randolph at 5884 Inverness Street.

Today

1746 Commercial Drive and 1542 East 1st still have their buildings from before 1946; 5884 Inverness (1989) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1143 Comox, 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, street section

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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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.