A family name on Kitchener Street, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Burnses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Burns at two addresses in 1940, all on Kitchener Street, with the close spelling Bourns. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 63 other streets too, all listed on the Burns name's own page.
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Where the Burnses lived
- 1
1732 Kitchener Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Lloyd C Burns, a boat taxi 1940
Next door in 1940: mankato apts at 1704 and H Hewitt at 1746. The block, door by door
- 2
2212 Kitchener Street
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- R M Burns, a shoe repairer 1940
Next door in 1940: S J Dobson at 2206 and F L Coltart at 2220. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a boat taxi and a shoe repairer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 Lloyd C Burns at 1732 Kitchener Street, a boat taxi. R M Burns is listed at 2212 Kitchener 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 Robert M Burns there as the householder, a shoe repairer.
Today
2212 Kitchener still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 1732 Kitchener (1998) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Burns Lloyd C boat taxi 550 Cardero1732 Kitchener, p. 82
- *Burns R M2212 Kitchener, p. 99
- Burns Robt M shoe repr 2911 E 12212 Kitchener, p. 82
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Burnses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Burns 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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Another name, or a house
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.