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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Scores

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Score at three 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 Scores lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Two addresses aren't on today's map, so they have no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1336 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Jean Score, a housekeeper at the Cecil Hotel 1940

    Next door in 1940: Cecil Cafe at 1326 and Independent Motors at 1344. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1287 Robson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Secore (no first name printed) 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs K S Graves at 1267. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3728 West 17th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • I Score, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss M Moncrieff at 3716 and E A Glennie at 3738. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a carpenter and a housekeeper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Jean Score at 1336 Granville Street, a housekeeper at the Cecil Hotel. The 1940 name section lists Secore (no first name printed) at 1287 Robson Street. In 1940 the directory lists I Score at 3728 West 17th 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 lists Ivar Score there as the householder, a carpenter.

Today

3728 West 17th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1939 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1336 Granville and 1287 Robson, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Scores

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 S. Want a name removed? Tell us.