A family name on East 11th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Browns
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Brown at two addresses in 1940, all on East 11th Avenue, 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
747 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- H D Brown, an erector at Ornamental Bronze 1940
- Stuart T Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: P G Hulbert at 741 and Mrs A Dawson at 753. The block, door by door
- 2
815 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mrs E Brown, an operator at Empire Cleaners 1940
- Norman F Brown, a spotter at the Sanitary Dry Cleaning & Dye Works 1940
Next door in 1940: W H Grimshaw at 825. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an erector, an operator and a spotter.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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
In 1940 the directory lists H D Brown at 747 East 11th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Howard D Brown there as the householder, an erector at Ornamental Bronze, with Stuart T Brown. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs E Brown at 815 East 11th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Elsie Brown there as the householder, an operator at Empire Cleaners, with Norman F Brown, a spotter at the Sanitary Dry Cleaning & Dye Works.
Today
815 East 11th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1907 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 747 East 11th, 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.
- Brown H D747 East 11th, p. 202
- Brown Howard D erector Ornamental Bronze747 East 11th, p. 73
- Brown Stuart T747 East 11th, p. 74
- Brown Mrs E815 East 11th, p. 202
- Brown Mrs Elsie opr Empire Clnrs815 East 11th, p. 72
- Brown Norman F spotter Sanitary Dry Cleaning & Dye Wks815 East 11th, p. 74
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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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.