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A family name on East 5th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · ten people at four addresses

The directories print ten people named Brown at four addresses in 1940, all on East 5th 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: four Browns at 1556 East 5th 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

    115 East 5th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • C Brown, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: W C Willams at 101 and H L Freedman at 123. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    510 East 5th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • H Brown 1940
    • Ron Brown, a springer at Restwell Upholstery 1940

    Next door in 1940: B W Barrigar at 500 and J W Smith at 514. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1556 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E A Brown, of Nanaimo Service 1940
    • Albert L Brown, of Nanaimo Service 1940
    • Leonard S Brown, a warehouseman at Dominion Rubber 1940
    • Victor A Brown, a helper 1940

    Next door in 1940: R J Rankin at 1566. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1832 East 5th Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R M Brown, a driver at Imperial Oil 1940
    • Ella M Brown 1940
    • Irene M Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: G Smith at 1828 and E E Lamerton at 1836. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the ten: a driver, a helper, a springer and a warehouseman. Two of them worked for Nanaimo Service.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2) and 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 C Brown at 115 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Clement Brown there, retired. In 1940 the directory lists H Brown at 510 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Henry Brown there as the householder, with Ron Brown, a springer at Restwell Upholstery.

In 1940 the directory lists E A Brown at 1556 East 5th 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 Edward A Brown there as the householder, of Nanaimo Service, with Albert L Brown, of Nanaimo Service, Leonard S Brown, a warehouseman at Dominion Rubber, and Victor A Brown, a helper. In 1940 the directory lists R M Brown at 1832 East 5th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Ross M Brown there as the householder, a driver at Imperial Oil, with Ella M Brown and Irene M Brown.

Today

1556 East 5th (1987) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 115 East 5th, 510 East 5th and 1832 East 5th, so those buildings are 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.