A family name on Highbury Street, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey
The Allens
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Allen at one address, 5807 Highbury Street in Dunbar-Southlands, 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
Southlands
- 1
5807 Highbury Street
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- Mrs M L Allen, widow of A W 1940
- Elizabeth M Allen, a technician at the Provincial Board of Health Lab BC Government 1940
- Thomasina Allen, a nurse at the St Pauls Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: A B Cook at 5819. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a nurse and a technician. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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 Mrs M L Allen at 5807 Highbury Street; 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 Mary L Allen there as the householder, widow of A W, with Elizabeth M Allen, a technician at the Provincial Board of Health Lab BC Government, and Thomasina Allen, a nurse at the St Pauls Hospital.
Today
5807 Highbury (1992) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Allen Mrs M L5807 Highbury, p. 84
- Allen Eliz M techn Prov Bd of Health Lab BC Govt5807 Highbury, p. 9
- Allen Mary L wid A W5807 Highbury, p. 9
- Allen Thomasina nurse St Pauls Hosp5807 Highbury, 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.