A family name on West 6th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey
The Berrys
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Berry at one address, 399 West 6th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, in 1940. The directories print the name on 48 other streets too, all listed on the Berry name's own page.
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The Berrys at home
Pleasant
- 1
399 West 6th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- J J Berry, a building contractor 1940
- Dorothy A Berry, an auto operator at the CN Telegraphs 1940
- Horace A Berry, a wiper at the CPR 1940
- Stan J Berry, a foreman for Coyle Batteries 1940
- Walter C Berry, a warehouseman at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940
Next door in 1940: J Marchant at 355. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all five: an auto operator, a building contractor, a foreman, a warehouseman and a wiper.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 J J Berry, a building contractor, at 399 West 6th 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, where each person's work is printed, lists John J Berry there, a building contractor, with Dorothy A Berry, an auto operator at the CN Telegraphs, Horace A Berry, a wiper at the CPR, Stan J Berry, a foreman for Coyle Batteries, and Walter C Berry, a warehouseman at Macdonalds Consolidated.
Today
The City no longer lists 399 West 6th, 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.
- *Berry J J building contractor399 West 6th, p. 187
- Berry Dorothy A auto opr CN Telegs399 West 6th, p. 45
- Berry Horace A wiper CPR399 West 6th, p. 45
- Berry John J bldg contr399 West 6th, p. 45
- Berry Stan J formn Coyle Batteries399 West 6th, p. 45
- Berry Walter C whsmn Macdonalds Consol399 West 6th, p. 45
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Berrys
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Berry 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.