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A family name on East 39th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at five addresses

The directories print nine people named Brown at five addresses in 1940, all on East 39th 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 most under one roof: three Browns at 2456 East 39th in 1940. 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    41 East 39th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • A S Brown, a driver 1940
    • J Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: E Smith at 27 and S R Baird at 65. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    304 East 39th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs Mary Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs H Southern at 338. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2327 East 39th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • M B Brown, a leverman at Canadian White Pine 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Green at 2317 and B A Brown at 2361. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2361 East 39th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • B A Brown, a filer 1940
    • Ena Z Brown, a school teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: M B Brown at 2327 and H W Gorrie at 2375. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2456 East 39th Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • F P Brown, a carpenter 1940
    • Alice E K Brown 1940
    • Joseph F Brown, a baker at Stewart's Do-Nuts 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Johanson at 2442 and H Normand at 2470. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the nine: a baker, a carpenter, a driver, a filer, a leverman and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Renfrew-Collingwood (3) and Riley Park (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 J Brown at 41 East 39th Avenue. By 1940 it is A S Brown. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Albert S Brown there as the householder, a driver, with John Brown. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Mary Brown at 304 East 39th Avenue.

In 1940 the directory lists M B Brown at 2327 East 39th 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 Murdock B Brown there as the householder, a leverman at Canadian White Pine. In 1940 the directory lists B A Brown at 2361 East 39th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Bert A Brown there as the householder, a filer, with Ena Z Brown, a school teacher.

In 1940 the directory lists F P Brown at 2456 East 39th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Frank P Brown there as the householder, a carpenter, with Alice E K Brown, and Joseph F Brown, a baker at Stewart's Do-Nuts.

Today

41 East 39th (1975), 304 East 39th (1976), 2361 East 39th (1974) and 2456 East 39th (1987) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2327 East 39th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 14 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.