A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey
The Burnetts
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Burnett at one address, 877 West 16th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940, with the close spellings Burnet and Burnette. The directories print the name on 47 other streets too, all listed on the Burnett name's own page.
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The Burnetts at home
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877 West 16th Avenue
Fairview, 1940
- Mrs B Burnett, a maid at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
- Isabel Burnett 1940
- Ken A Burnett, an orderly at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: S C Barker at 871 and W A Forbes at 887. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a maid and an orderly. Two of them worked for Vancouver General Hospital.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Fairview. 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 Mrs B Burnett at 877 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Bella Burnett there as the householder, a maid at the Vancouver General Hospital, with Isabel Burnett, and Ken A Burnett, an orderly at the Vancouver General Hospital.
Today
The City no longer lists 877 West 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Burnett Mrs B877 West 16th, p. 223
- Burnett Mrs Bella maid Van Genl Hosp877 West 16th, p. 81
- Burnett Isabel877 West 16th, p. 81
- Burnett Ken A orderly Van Genl Hosp877 West 16th, p. 81
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Burnetts
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Burnett 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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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.