A family name on West 34th Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge
The Allens
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Allen at one address, 3776 West 34th Avenue 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
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3776 West 34th Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- A J Allen 1940
- Norma C Allen, a saleswoman at Woolworths 1940
- Dorothy Allen, a saleswoman at Nell Gwynne Beauty Shop 1940
- Margaret M Allen, a bookkeeper at Acme Towel 1940
Next door in 1940: W M Cullin at 3758 and T Morgan at 3792. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a saleswoman (2), a bookkeeper and a tobacco.
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 A J Allen at 3776 West 34th 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 Angus J Allen there as the householder, with Norma C Allen, a saleswoman at Woolworths, Dorothy Allen, a saleswoman at Nell Gwynne Beauty Shop, and Margaret M Allen, a bookkeeper at Acme Towel.
Today
The City no longer lists 3776 West 34th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Allen A J3776 West 34th, p. 250
- Allen Angus J tobac 340B Cambie3776 West 34th, p. 9
- Allen Dorothy slswm Nell Gwynne Beauty Shop3776 West 34th, p. 9
- Allen Margt M bkpr Acme Towel3776 West 34th, p. 9
- Allen Norma C slswm Woolworths3776 West 34th, p. 9
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.