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A family name on East 28th Avenue, Renfrew-Collingwood, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Brown at three addresses in 1940, all on East 28th Avenue, with the close spelling Browne. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

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

    719 East 28th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Brown 1940
    • Frederick J Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: J S Robertson at 731. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3010 East 28th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • T Brown 1940
    • Harold D Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Lorimer at 3004 and W Brown at 3016. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3016 East 28th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • W Brown, a groundman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Rose M Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Brown at 3010 and R Coates at 3022. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the six: a groundman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Renfrew-Collingwood (2) and Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 A Brown at 719 East 28th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alfred Brown there as the householder, with Frederick J Brown. In 1940 the directory lists T Brown at 3010 East 28th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Thomas Brown there as the householder, with Thomas H Brown and Harold D Brown.

In 1940 the directory lists W Brown at 3016 East 28th 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 lists William Brown there as the householder, a groundman at the BC Electric Railway, with Rose M Brown.

Today

719 East 28th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; 3010 East 28th (1983) and 3016 East 28th (1988) have newer buildings, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 10 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Browns

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.