A family name on West 41st Avenue, Kerrisdale, Riley Park, Shaughnessy, Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands
The Allens
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Allen at one address, 2641 West 41st Avenue in Kerrisdale, 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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2641 West 41st Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- G K Allen, proprietor of Canada Chemical Culture Gardeners 1940
- Dorothy Allen, a student 1940
- Muriel M P Allen 1940
- Raeburn W Allen, a trimmer at Canadian White Pine 1940
- William F A Allen, a leverman at Canadian White Pine 1940
Next door in 1940: V H Thompson at 2625 and H S Banbury at 2657. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a leverman, a proprietor and a trimmer. Two of them worked for Canadian White Pine.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kerrisdale. 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 G K Allen at 2641 West 41st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Glen K Allen there as the householder, proprietor of Canada Chemical Culture Gardeners, with Dorothy Allen, a student, Muriel M P Allen, Raeburn W Allen, a trimmer at Canadian White Pine, and William F A Allen, a leverman at Canadian White Pine.
Today
The City no longer lists 2641 West 41st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Allen G K2641 West 41st, p. 258
- Allen Dorothy studt2641 West 41st, p. 9
- Allen Glen K prop Canada Chemical Culture Gdnrs2641 West 41st, p. 9
- Allen Muriel M P2641 West 41st, p. 9
- Allen Raeburn W trmr Can White Pine2641 West 41st, p. 10
- Allen Wm F A levermn Can White Pine2641 West 41st, 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.