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A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

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 West 16th 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 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1551 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • R G Brown, an office 1940

    Next door in 1940: st charles apts at 1535 and york manor at 1565. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1591 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • R P Brown, a manager at Vancouver Recreation Parks 1940

    Next door in 1940: gloucester court at 1575. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2888 West 16th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs J Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: C F Watson at 2882 and H S Smith at 2894. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3538 West 16th Avenue

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W C Brown, a shipper at Brown Bros 1940

    Next door in 1940: C D Wicks at 3534 and Miss K V Lofts at 3544. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a manager, an office and a shipper.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2), Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano. 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 R G Brown at 1551 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists R Gordon Brown there as the householder, an office. In 1940 the directory lists R P Brown at 1591 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Robert P Brown there as the householder, a manager at Vancouver Recreation Parks.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs J Brown at 2888 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Joan Brown there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists W C Brown at 3538 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists William C Brown there as the householder, a shipper at Brown Bros.

Today

1551 West 16th, 1591 West 16th and 3538 West 16th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2888 West 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 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.