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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Burks

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Burk at four addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Burks 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

    1549 East 2nd Avenue

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • G W Burk, a woodworker 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Smellie at 1545 and J T Newman at 1579. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1631 Napier Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • William H Burk, a driver 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Rees at 1629 and H H Roberts at 1633. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    5031 Spencer Street

    Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940

    • W R Burk, a driver at Crone Storage 1940
    • Gordon C Burk, who worked for Restmore 1940

    Next door in 1940: W G Stott at 5027. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1967 West 1st Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • R S Burk, a carpenter 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Dowden at 1963 and A W Watson at 1973. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a driver (2), a carpenter, an employee and a woodworker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2), Kitsilano and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 G W Burk at 1549 East 2nd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists George W Burk there as the householder, a woodworker. The 1940 name section lists William H Burk at 1631 Napier Street, a driver.

W R Burk is listed at 5031 Spencer Street 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 William R Burk there as the householder, a driver at Crone Storage, with Gordon C Burk, who worked for Restmore. R S Burk is listed at 1967 West 1st Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Richard S Burk there as the householder, a carpenter.

Today

5031 Spencer and 1967 West 1st still have their buildings from before 1946, 1967 West 1st on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 1549 East 2nd and 1631 Napier, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.