A family name on East 52nd Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney
The Allens
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Allen at one address, 617 East 52nd Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 107 other streets too, all listed on the Allen name's own page.
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The Allens at home
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617 East 52nd Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- S C H Allen, an engineer at Canadian White Pine 1940
- F C Allen, who worked for Black Bros Motor Products 1940
- Gladys L Allen 1940
- John A Allen, a fireman at Canadian White Pine 1940
Next door in 1940: A F Wilbee at 639. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: an engineer and a fireman. Two of them worked for Canadian White Pine.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. 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 S C H Allen at 617 East 52nd 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 S Charles H Allen there as the householder, an engineer at Canadian White Pine, with F C Allen, who worked for Black Bros Motor Products, Gladys L Allen, and John A Allen, a fireman at Canadian White Pine.
Today
617 East 52nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1933 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Allen S C H617 East 52nd, p. 266
- Allen F C Regd acct Black Bros Motor Prods617 East 52nd, p. 9
- Allen Gladys L617 East 52nd, p. 9
- Allen John A firmn Can White Pine617 East 52nd, p. 9
- Allen S Chas H eng Can White Pine617 East 52nd, p. 10
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Allens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Allen 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.