A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Browns
In the city directories 1940 · ten people at eight addresses
The directories print ten people named Brown at eight addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings Street, 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 2350 East Hastings 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
- 1
41 East Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Frederick Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: Hub Ltd at 45. The block, door by door
- 2
159 East Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Mrs Marie Brown, a housekeeper at the Balmoral Hotel 1940
Next door in 1940: Common Gold Cafe at 151 and Balmoral Hotel Cigar Stand at 161. The block, door by door
- 3
237 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- William Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: Empress Hotel at 235 and F S Hikida at 239. The block, door by door
- 4
- 5
- 6
786 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Albert I Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: Hastings Meat Mkt at 784 and R M Monsen at 790. The block, door by door
- 7
1671 East Hastings Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Mrs I Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: D Kishimoto at 1657. The block, door by door
- 8
2350 East Hastings Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- J T Brown, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940
- Lorne J Brown 1940
- Mae Brown, a saleswoman at Spencer's 1940
Next door in 1940: Star Barber Shop at 2344 and Wright S Co at 2352. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for four of the ten: a housekeeper, a laborer, a logger and a saleswoman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (4), Downtown (2) and Grandview-Woodland (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frederick Brown at 41 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Marie Brown at 159 East Hastings Street, a housekeeper at the Balmoral Hotel. The 1940 name section lists William Brown at 237 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Chris Brown at 567 East Hastings Street, a logger.
The 1940 name section lists Gabriel Brown at 575 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Albert I Brown at 786 East Hastings Street. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs I Brown at 1671 East Hastings Street; 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 Mrs Inga Brown there as the householder.
In 1940 the directory lists J T Brown at 2350 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists James T Brown there as the householder, a laborer at the City of Vancouver, with Lorne J Brown, and Mae Brown, a saleswoman at Spencer's.
Today
237 East Hastings, 786 East Hastings, 1671 East Hastings and 2350 East Hastings still have their buildings from before 1946, 237 East Hastings on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 41 East Hastings (2017) and 567 East Hastings (1971) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 575 East Hastings, so that building is probably gone (inferred); for 159 East Hastings, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.
Every line as printed
All 12 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Brown Fredk41 East Hastings, p. 72
- Brown Mrs Marie hsekpr Balmoral Hotel159 East Hastings, p. 74
- Brown Wm237 East Hastings, p. 75
- Brown Chris logr567 East Hastings, p. 72
- Brown Gabriel575 East Hastings, p. 72
- Brown Albt I786 East Hastings, p. 71
- *Brown Mrs I1671 East Hastings, p. 75
- Brown Mrs Inga1671 East Hastings, p. 73
- Brown J T2350 East Hastings, p. 75
- Brown Jas T lab Van City2350 East Hastings, p. 73
- Brown Lorne J2350 East Hastings, p. 74
- Brown Mae slswm Spencers2350 East Hastings, p. 74
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.