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A family name on West 3rd Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · six people at five addresses

The directories print six people named Brown at five addresses in 1940, all on West 3rd 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. 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. 1

    2027 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • John Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: G R Pearson at 2021 and H Talling at 2043. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2427 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • D Brown, a salesman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M W Parry at 2425 and R W T Browning at 2435. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2563 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs M S Brown, widow of T T 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Y Reid at 2557 and W Y Woods at 2565. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3029 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Hilda Brown, widow of D C 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E MacKenzie at 3011 and F W Abbott at 3075. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3575 West 3rd Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H O Brown, a building superintendent at IOOF Hall 1940
    • Ray E Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: J T Bateman at 3569. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the six: a building superintendent and a salesman. Two are widows, listed under their own names.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (5). 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 John Brown at 2027 West 3rd Avenue. D Brown is listed at 2427 West 3rd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists David Brown there as the householder, a salesman.

Mrs M S Brown is listed at 2563 West 3rd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Matilda S Brown there as the householder, widow of T T. The 1940 name section lists Hilda Brown at 3029 West 3rd Avenue, widow of D C.

In 1940 the directory lists H O Brown at 3575 West 3rd Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Harry O Brown there as the householder, a building superintendent at IOOF Hall, with Ray E Brown.

Today

3029 West 3rd and 3575 West 3rd still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 2027 West 3rd, 2427 West 3rd and 2563 West 3rd, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 9 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

Every directory, as one book

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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.