The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Brown at two addresses in 1940, all on Pine Crescent, with the close spelling Browne. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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

Shaughnessy

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
4261 Pine Crescent
Shaughnessy, 1940
- W R Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: H F Harrison at 4237 and H Hacking at 4287. The block, door by door
2
4311 Pine Crescent
Shaughnessy, 1940
- W C Brown 1940
Next door in 1940: H S Coulter at 4337. The block, door by door

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (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 W R Brown at 4261 Pine Crescent; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). W C Brown is listed at 4311 Pine Crescent in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too.

Today

4261 Pine Crescent still has its building from before 1946, dated 1923 by the City's record; 4311 Pine Crescent (2013) has a newer building, by the City's record.

24 June 1917 Shih Yuen Lin with family and guests in the garden of the Chinese Consulate at 3738 Pine Crescent. Not at the house at 4261 Pine Crescent: no archive photo of the 4200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1376-310. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.

1940

*Brown W R4261 Pine Crescent, p. 133
*Brown W C4311 Pine Crescent, p. 133

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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.