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A family name on West King Edward Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Armstrongs

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Armstrong at two addresses in 1940, all on West King Edward Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Armstrongs at 3006 West King Edward in 1940. 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

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).
  1. 1

    691 West King Edward Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • C H Armstrong, a district manager tire division at Goodrich Rubber 1940

    Next door in 1940: T B Quisenberry at 665. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3006 West King Edward Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • R W Armstrong, a city paymaster at the City of Vancouver 1940
    • Mary K Armstrong, an assistant at the Vancouver Public Library 1940
    • T Edward Armstrong, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: F J Brown at 3024. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an assistant, a city paymaster and a district manager tire division.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and South Cambie. 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 C H Armstrong at 691 West King Edward Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Claude H Armstrong there as the householder, a district manager tire division at Goodrich Rubber. In 1940 the directory lists R W Armstrong at 3006 West King Edward 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 lists Robert W Armstrong there as the householder, a city paymaster at the City of Vancouver, with Mary K Armstrong, an assistant at the Vancouver Public Library, T Edward Armstrong, and Thomas Armstrong, retired.

Today

691 West King Edward and 3006 West King Edward still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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Every directory, as one book

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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.