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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Brownsons

In the city directories 1940 · six people at one address

The directories print six people named Brownson at one address, 1456 West 71st Avenue in Marpole, in 1940.

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The Brownsons at home

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).
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    1456 West 71st Avenue

    Marpole, 1940

    • T W Brownson, a grocer 1940
    • Ethel Brownson, who worked for United Distillers 1940
    • George Brownson, a musician 1940
    • Mary Brownson, a stenographer at the Canadian Government 1940
    • Poppy Brownson, a student 1940
    • Sally Brownson, a labeller at United Distillers 1940

    Next door in 1940: M L Jacobson at 1444 and E A Ware at 1468. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: an employee, a grocer, a labeller, a musician and a stenographer. Two of them worked for United Distillers.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Marpole. 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 T W Brownson at 1456 West 71st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Thomas W Brownson there as the householder, a grocer, with Ethel Brownson, who worked for United Distillers, George Brownson, a musician, Mary Brownson, a stenographer at the Canadian Government, Poppy Brownson, a student, and Sally Brownson, a labeller at United Distillers.

Today

The City no longer lists 1456 West 71st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Brownsons

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.