A family name on Harwood Street, West End
The Browns
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named Brown at four addresses in 1940, all on Harwood 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
- 1
1052 Harwood Street
West End, 1940
- Edward Brown, proprietor of White Chef 1940
Next door in 1940: T J Wellman at 1046 and L C Parkes at 1056. The block, door by door
- 2
1124 Harwood Street
West End, 1940
- J R Brown, a dispatcher at BC Motor Transportation 1940
Next door in 1940: J Byrne at 1122 and H L Norman at 1126. The block, door by door
- 3
1146 Harwood Street
West End, 1940
- Joseph A Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: E P Williamson at 1142 and N C Peterson at 1148. The block, door by door
- 4
1558 Harwood Street
West End, 1940
- W L Brown, a miner 1940
Next door in 1940: R M Blair at 1550. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a dispatcher, a miner and a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (4). 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 Edward Brown at 1052 Harwood Street, proprietor of White Chef. J R Brown is listed at 1124 Harwood Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists James R Brown there as the householder, a dispatcher at BC Motor Transportation. The 1940 name section lists Joseph A Brown at 1146 Harwood Street.
In 1940 the directory lists W L Brown at 1558 Harwood Street. The 1940 name section lists Walter L Brown there as the householder, a miner.
Today
1146 Harwood (1974) and 1558 Harwood (1985) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1052 Harwood and 1124 Harwood, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Brown Edw prop White Chef1052 Harwood, p. 72
- Brown J R1124 Harwood, p. 73
- Brown Jas R dispr BC Motor Trans1124 Harwood, p. 73
- Brown Jos A1146 Harwood, p. 73
- Brown W L1558 Harwood, p. 73
- Brown Walter L miner1558 Harwood, p. 75
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Browns
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Brown name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.