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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Stongs

In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses

The directories print five people named Stong at five addresses in 1940 in five of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling St Onge. 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 Stongs 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

    1735 East 3rd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • C R Stong, a grocer 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Hampton at 1731 and J Ross at 1745. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1038 East Cordova Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • G St Onge 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss E Larkin at 1030. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4094 West 17th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R G Stong, a salesman for C R Stong 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss B Grant at 4086 and F E Creer at 4098. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3172 West 8th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • O L Stong, a manager for P Paris 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Oakenfull at 3162 and J F Cowell at 3182. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    95 West Hastings Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • C R Stong, a grocer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Union Shoe Co Ltd at 63. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a grocer, a manager and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Dunbar-Southlands, Grandview-Woodland, Kitsilano and Strathcona. 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 R Stong at 1735 East 3rd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Carson R Stong there as the householder, a grocer. In 1940 the directory lists G St Onge at 1038 East Cordova Street.

R G Stong is listed at 4094 West 17th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Ralph G Stong there as the householder, a salesman for C R Stong. O L Stong is listed at 3172 West 8th Avenue in 1940; 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 Otto L Stong there as the householder, a manager for P Paris.

C R Stong, a grocer, is listed at 95 West Hastings Street in 1940.

Today

1735 East 3rd, 4094 West 17th and 3172 West 8th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1038 East Cordova and 95 West Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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 Stongs

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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.