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A family name on West 6th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Browns

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at five addresses

The directories print seven people named Brown at five addresses in 1940, all on West 6th 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: three Browns at 4655 West 6th 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

    1366 West 6th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Frank H Brown 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Badenoch at 1364 and W McDermont at 1374. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2645 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H Brown, a salesman at Norfolk Paper 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Pollington at 2635 and M H Thompson at 2655. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4606 West 6th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Mrs M Brown, widow of J W 1940

    Next door in 1940: J J Flood at 4610. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4613 West 6th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Kathleen Brown, a maid for C W Topping 1940

    Next door in 1940: J McGlashan at 4605 and H C Sieburth at 4621. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    4655 West 6th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • R M Brown, a superintendent at the Canadian Government 1940
    • Don E Brown, a student 1940
    • Robert B Brown, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: Dr W H Lang at 4645 and C Willis at 4665. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the seven: a maid, a salesman and a superintendent. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West Point Grey (3), Fairview 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank H Brown at 1366 West 6th Avenue. H Brown is listed at 2645 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harold Brown there as the householder, a salesman at Norfolk Paper.

Mrs M Brown is listed at 4606 West 6th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists Minnie Brown there as the householder, widow of J W. The 1940 name section lists Kathleen Brown at 4613 West 6th Avenue, a maid for C W Topping.

In 1940 the directory lists R M Brown at 4655 West 6th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Roscoe M Brown there as the householder, a superintendent at the Canadian Government, with Don E Brown, a student, and Robert B Brown, a student at UBC.

Today

2645 West 6th, 4606 West 6th, 4613 West 6th and 4655 West 6th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1366 West 6th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 10 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.