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The Scanlons

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at six addresses

The directories print nine people named Scanlon at six addresses in 1940 in six 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 Scanlons 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

    1752 East 3rd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E Scanlon 1940
    • Nora Scanlon, a comptroller operator at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Hughes at 1746 and D M Gillis at 1762. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    873 East Hastings Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Scanlon, a fisherman 1940

    Next door in 1940: J S Harding at 869 and Community Centre Ukranian at 875. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5198 Moss Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • M J Scanlon, a shipwright 1940
    • Robert A Scanlon, a salesman at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: J A Nelson at 5158. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4630 West 10th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J Scanlon, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: G F Ferries at 4624 and G McC Lee at 4634. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3851 West 18th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • E S Scanlon, proprietor of the Scanlon Electric 1940

    Next door in 1940: C I Hinchcliffe at 3847 and E A Hamilton at 3857. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    603 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J R Scanlon, a caretaker at the Empire Building 1940
    • Margaret Scanlon 1940

    Next door in 1940: Post Fund Last at 601 and Pitman's Optical House at 605. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the nine: a caretaker, a comptroller operator, a fisherman, a proprietor, a salesman and a shipwright.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands, Grandview-Woodland, Renfrew-Collingwood, Strathcona and West Point Grey. 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 E Scanlon at 1752 East 3rd Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edmund Scanlon there as the householder, with Nora Scanlon, a comptroller operator at Macdonalds Consolidated. The 1940 name section lists Scanlon at 873 East Hastings Street, a fisherman.

M J Scanlon is listed at 5198 Moss Street in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Michael J Scanlon there as the householder, a shipwright, with Robert A Scanlon, a salesman at Woodward's. J Scanlon is listed at 4630 West 10th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John Scanlon there as the householder, retired.

E S Scanlon is listed at 3851 West 18th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists E Stanway Scanlon there as the householder, proprietor of the Scanlon Electric. J R Scanlon is listed at 603 West Hastings Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists James R Scanlon there as the householder, a caretaker at the Empire Building, with Margaret Scanlon.

Today

1752 East 3rd and 3851 West 18th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 873 East Hastings, 5198 Moss, 4630 West 10th and 603 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 14 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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.