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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Randses

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Rands 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 Randses 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

    3920 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • C S Rands, an office manager at International Harvester 1940

    Next door in 1940: K Rekdal at 3908 and A E Thrower at 3932. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2196 Kitchener Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • F Rands, a clerk at the Patricia Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L E Young at 2180. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and an office manager.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands 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

In 1940 the directory lists C S Rands at 3920 Dunbar Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Claude S Rands there as the householder, an office manager at International Harvester. In 1940 the directory lists F Rands at 2196 Kitchener Street. The 1940 name section lists Frank Rands there as the householder, a clerk at the Patricia Hotel.

Today

3920 Dunbar still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; 2196 Kitchener (2001) has a newer building, by the City's record.

A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows
1940 A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows. Not at the house at 3920 Dunbar: no archive photo of the 3900 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.530. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Randses

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 R. Want a name removed? Tell us.