A family name on West 10th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey
The Burnses
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Burns at one address, 81 West 10th Avenue in Mount Pleasant, in 1940, with the close spelling Bourns. The directories print the name on 63 other streets too, all listed on the Burns name's own page.
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The Burnses at home
Pleasant
- 1
81 West 10th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- R J Burns, a salesman at Spencer's 1940
- H Johnston Burns, an auditor at the BC Government 1940
Next door in 1940: G B Rexford at 65. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an auditor and a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Mount Pleasant. 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 R J Burns at 81 West 10th Avenue; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Robert J Burns there as the householder, a salesman at Spencer's, with H Johnston Burns, an auditor at the BC Government.
Today
The City no longer lists 81 West 10th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Burns R J81 West 10th, p. 198
- Burns H Johnston aud BC Govt81 West 10th, p. 81
- Burns Robt J slsmn Spencers81 West 10th, p. 82
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.