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A family name on East 24th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Barneses

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Barnes at two addresses in 1940, all on East 24th Avenue, with the close spellings Bairnes and Barness. 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: four Barneses at 460 East 24th in 1940. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Barnes name's own page.

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Where the Barneses 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

    249 East 24th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Harry Barnes, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: J C Engelland at 241 and W G Pugsley at 255. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    460 East 24th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs C E Bairnes, a decorator 1940
    • G Ken Bairnes 1940
    • Harry T Bairnes 1940
    • Mrs Kath E Bairnes, a decorator 1940

    Next door in 1940: N MacIver at 442 and H Thorslund at 464. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a decorator and a driver.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (2). 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 Harry Barnes at 249 East 24th Avenue, a driver. Mrs C E Bairnes, a decorator, is listed at 460 East 24th 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 G Ken Bairnes there, with Harry T Bairnes, and Mrs Kath E Bairnes, a decorator.

Today

249 East 24th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; 460 East 24th (1983) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 5 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 Barneses

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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.