A family name on East 15th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Allans
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Allan at one address, 1736 East 15th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 76 other streets too, all listed on the Allan name's own page.
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The Allans at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1736 East 15th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- E Allan, a clerk at Spencer's 1940
Next door in 1940: S H Cox at 1728 and W Findlay at 1740. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a clerk.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 Allan at 1736 East 15th 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 Ernest Allan there as the householder, a clerk at Spencer's, with Edith Allan, a saleswoman at Spencer's.
Today
The City no longer lists 1736 East 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Allan E1736 East 15th, p. 218
- Allan Edith slswm Spencers1736 East 15th, p. 8
- Allan Ernest clk Spencers1736 East 15th, p. 8
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Allans
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Allan name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.