A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge
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 West 23rd Avenue, 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
- 1
3589 West 23rd Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- Edgar N Brown Jr, a director at Greater Vancouver Health League 1940
Next door in 1940: W E Terry at 3577 and L McK Scott at 3593. The block, door by door
- 2
3880 West 23rd Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- H L Brown, a clerk at the City of Vancouver 1940
Next door in 1940: C A Evans at 3876 and Miss G I W Gwyther at 3890. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a director.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Edgar N Brown Jr at 3589 West 23rd Avenue, a director at Greater Vancouver Health League. H L Brown is listed at 3880 West 23rd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harry L Brown there as the householder, a clerk at the City of Vancouver.
Today
3880 West 23rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1922 by the City's record; 3589 West 23rd (2003) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Brown Edgar N Jr dir Greater Van Health League3589 West 23rd, p. 72
- Brown H L3880 West 23rd, p. 238
- Brown Harry L clk Van City3880 West 23rd, p. 73
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.