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A family name on West 1st Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · ten people at seven addresses

The directories print ten people named Brown at seven addresses in 1940, all on West 1st 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 most under one roof: four Browns at 3555 West 1st 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

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

    1900 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Eric Brown, an accountant 1940

    Next door in 1940: H P Tucker at 1906. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2191 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • T N Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: C Chapman at 2173. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2333 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H Browne, a baker at McGavin 1940

    Next door in 1940: W N Greenwood at 2331 and Mrs McKillop at 2335. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2435 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H A Brown, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M S E Gilbert at 2425 and W K Burns at 2445. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2500 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • William Brown, on active service 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Dier at 2524. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    2519 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C P Brown, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A Ironside at 2521. The block, door by door

  7. 7

    3555 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C H Browne, an inspector at the Canadian Freight Association 1940
    • Kathleen M Browne 1940
    • Myrtle M Browne 1940
    • William H Browne, a baker 1940

    Next door in 1940: J W Reade at 3543 and J Hacking at 3565. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for seven of the ten: a baker (2), an accountant, an inspector, an on active service, a salesman and a school teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (7). 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 Eric Brown at 1900 West 1st Avenue, an accountant. T N Brown is listed at 2191 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists H Browne at 2333 West 1st Avenue, a baker at McGavin.

H A Brown is listed at 2435 West 1st Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Hugh A Brown there as the householder, a school teacher at the Burnaby Corporation. The 1940 name section lists William Brown at 2500 West 1st Avenue, on active service.

In 1940 the directory lists C P Brown at 2519 West 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Cecil P Brown there as the householder, a salesman. In 1940 the directory lists C H Browne at 3555 West 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Charles H Browne there as the householder, an inspector at the Canadian Freight Association, with Kathleen M Browne, Myrtle M Browne, and William H Browne, a baker.

Today

2191 West 1st and 3555 West 1st still have their buildings from before 1946; 2435 West 1st (1955) and 2519 West 1st (1996) have newer buildings, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 2333 West 1st and 2500 West 1st, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred); for 1900 West 1st, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 13 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

The book of the Browns

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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.