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A family name on Comox Street, West End

The Allans

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Allan at two addresses in 1940, all on Comox Street. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 76 other streets too, all listed on the Allan name's own page.

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Where the Allans 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

    1167 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Lillian Allan, a stenographer 1940

    Next door in 1940: T J A Williams at 1165 and A Ellis at 1169. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1746 Comox Street

    West End, 1940

    • Jessie Allan 1940
    • Kath Allan 1940

    Next door in 1940: C G Shawcross at 1740 and T S Turner at 1756. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2). 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 Lillian Allan at 1167 Comox Street, a stenographer. The 1940 name section lists Jessie Allan at 1746 Comox Street, with Kath Allan.

Today

The City no longer lists 1167 Comox and 1746 Comox, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees
1925 Comox Street looking east from Denman, lined with cut-back boulevard trees. Taken where the 1700 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 1746 Comox. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 357-1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Allans

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 A. Want a name removed? Tell us.