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A family name on Matthews Avenue, Shaughnessy

The Allens

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Allen at one address, 1189 Matthews Avenue in Shaughnessy, 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

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).
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    1189 Matthews Avenue

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Mrs Doris Allen 1940
    • Keith S C Allen, a student 1940
    • Peter Allen, a student 1940

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Shaughnessy. 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 Mrs Doris Allen at 1189 Matthews Avenue, with Keith S C Allen, a student, and Peter Allen, a student.

Today

1189 Matthews still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record.

A woman and a child in a car on Matthews Avenue
About 1925 A woman and a child in a car on Matthews Avenue. Not at the house at 1189 Matthews: no archive photo of the 1100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-3545. 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 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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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.