A family name on Carrall Street, Downtown
The Browns
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Brown at two addresses in 1940, all on Carrall Street, with the close spelling Browne. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 254 other streets too, all listed on the Brown name's own page.
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Where the Browns lived
- 1
412 Carrall Street
Downtown, 1940
- Robert H Brown, an engineer 1940
Next door in 1940: West Hotel at 444. The block, door by door
- 2
444 Carrall Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs Minnie Brown, a clerk at the West Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: Pennsylvania Hotel at 412. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and an engineer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown (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 Robert H Brown at 412 Carrall Street, an engineer. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Minnie Brown at 444 Carrall Street, a clerk at the West Hotel.
Today
412 Carrall still has its building from before 1946, dated 1906 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 444 Carrall, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Brown Robt H eng412 Carrall, p. 74
- Brown Mrs Minnie clk West Hotel444 Carrall, p. 74
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Browns
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Brown 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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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.