A family name on East 15th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Armstrongs
In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses
The directories print three people named Armstrong at three addresses in 1940, all on East 15th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 96 other streets too, all listed on the Armstrong name's own page.
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Where the Armstrongs lived
- 1
49 East 15th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs Emma Armstrong 1940
Next door in 1940: F Riddoch at 43 and W F Ironside at 55. The block, door by door
- 2
175 East 15th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- B M Armstrong, a school teacher 1940
Next door in 1940: J J Bond at 145. The block, door by door
- 3
483 East 15th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs M J Armstrong, widow of A M 1940
Next door in 1940: Wilson (no first name printed) at 475. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a school teacher. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3). 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 Emma Armstrong at 49 East 15th Avenue. B M Armstrong is listed at 175 East 15th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Berniece M Armstrong there as the householder, a school teacher.
Mrs M J Armstrong is listed at 483 East 15th Avenue in 1940; 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 lists Minnie J Armstrong there as the householder, widow of A M.
Today
The City no longer lists 49 East 15th, 175 East 15th and 483 East 15th, so those buildings are 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.
- Armstrong Mrs Emma49 East 15th, p. 18
- Armstrong B M175 East 15th, p. 218
- Armstrong Berniece M sch tchr Van City175 East 15th, p. 18
- *Armstrong Mrs M J483 East 15th, p. 218
- Armstrong Minnie J wid A M483 East 15th, p. 19
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Armstrongs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Armstrong 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.