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A family name on East Pender Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at six addresses

The directories print seven people named Brown at six addresses in 1940, all on East Pender 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 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

    31 East Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Chew Brown, proprietor of Eatmor Cafe 1940

    Next door in 1940: Kuo Kong Silk Co at 27 and Gum Sun Co at 33. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    923 East Pender Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Adolph Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: V Lemisky at 911 and G Manke at 927. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2120 East Pender Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • C C Brown, an electrician 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Olsen at 2102 and E H Hunnisett at 2128. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2788 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • G H Brown, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: A J Steen at 2774 and C A Huhtala at 2792. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2823 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Mrs K Brown, widow of R H 1940
    • Kathleen M Brown, a helper at Empress Manufacturing 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J L Nairn at 2811 and A Edwards at 2829. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    3266 East Pender Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • J Brown, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: G C Butcher at 3260. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the seven: an electrician, a helper, a logger, a motorman and a proprietor. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (3), Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona. 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 Chew Brown at 31 East Pender Street, proprietor of Eatmor Cafe. The 1940 name section lists Adolph Brown at 923 East Pender Street. In 1940 the directory lists C C Brown at 2120 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists Cyril C Brown there as the householder, an electrician.

In 1940 the directory lists G H Brown at 2788 East Pender Street. The 1940 name section lists George H Brown there as the householder, a logger. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs K Brown at 2823 East Pender 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 Kathleen Brown there as the householder, widow of R H, with Kathleen M Brown, a helper at Empress Manufacturing.

In 1940 the directory lists J Brown at 3266 East Pender Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists James Brown there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

2120 East Pender and 2788 East Pender still have their buildings from before 1946; 2823 East Pender (2002) and 3266 East Pender (2007) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 31 East Pender and 923 East Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.
1936–1938 Riders in costume in a Chinese parade on East Pender Street, past the Kwong Yee Lung Co.. Not at the house at 2823 East Pender: no archive photo of the 2800 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 300-101. Public domain.

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.