A family name on Macdonald Street, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale
The Barneses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Barnes at one address, 2238 Macdonald Street in Kitsilano, in 1940, with the close spellings Bairnes and Barness. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Barnes name's own page.
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The Barneses at home
- 1
2238 Macdonald Street
Kitsilano, 1940
- T H Barnes, an assistant engineer at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
- Benjamin H Barnes, a canneryman 1940
- Thomas R Barnes, an apprentice at McDonell Metal Manufacturing 1940
Next door in 1940: H J Bowman at 2232 and Mrs D Finston at 2242. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: an apprentice, an assistant engineer and a canneryman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kitsilano. 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 T H Barnes at 2238 Macdonald Street; 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 Thomas H Barnes there as the householder, an assistant engineer at the Vancouver General Hospital, with Benjamin H Barnes, a canneryman, and Thomas R Barnes, an apprentice at McDonell Metal Manufacturing.
Today
2238 Macdonald still has its building from before 1946, on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Barnes T H2238 Macdonald, p. 105
- Barnes Benj H cannerymn2238 Macdonald, p. 32
- Barnes Thos H asst eng Van Genl Hosp2238 Macdonald, p. 32
- Barnes Thos R appr McDonell Metal Mfg2238 Macdonald, p. 32
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Barneses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Barnes 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 B. Want a name removed? Tell us.