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A family name on East 41st Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview, Renfrew-Collingwood and Killarney

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at five addresses

The directories print seven people named Brown at five addresses in 1940, all on East 41st 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

    96 East 41st Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Mrs Elsie Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: P Latham at 84. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    734 East 41st Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • A G L Brown, a salesman at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Hall at 728 and J Turnbull at 754. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1190 East 41st Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • S Brown, a baker at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Gevocht at 1122. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1898 East 41st Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • F Brown, retired 1940
    • Doug J F Brown, a branch manager at Reliable Drug 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Harrison at 1894. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2584 East 41st Avenue

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • A I Brown 1940
    • Ethel I Brown, a domestic 1940

    Next door in 1940: H E Roberts at 2548 and T W Andrews at 2596. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: a baker, a branch manager, a domestic and a salesman. Two of them worked for Spencer's.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2), Renfrew-Collingwood, Riley Park and Sunset. 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 Mrs Elsie Brown at 96 East 41st Avenue. A G L Brown is listed at 734 East 41st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Alex G L Brown there as the householder, a salesman at Spencer's.

S Brown is listed at 1190 East 41st Avenue in 1940; 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 Sam Brown there as the householder, a baker at Spencer's. F Brown is listed at 1898 East 41st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Fred Brown there as the householder, retired, with Doug J F Brown, a branch manager at Reliable Drug.

A I Brown is listed at 2584 East 41st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Arthur I Brown there as the householder, with Ethel I Brown, a domestic.

Today

96 East 41st, 734 East 41st, 1190 East 41st and 1898 East 41st still have their buildings from before 1946; 2584 East 41st (1957) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 11 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.