A family name on West 62nd Avenue, Marpole and Kerrisdale
The Burnses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Burns at one address, 19 West 62nd Avenue in Marpole, 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.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Burnses at home
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19 West 62nd Avenue
Marpole, 1940
- A V Bourns, a clerk 1940
- John D Bourns, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940
- William T Bourns, a student 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss J Juulsen at 57. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a millworker.
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 A V Bourns at 19 West 62nd 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 A Victor Bourns there as the householder, a clerk, with John D Bourns, a millworker at BC Plywoods, and William T Bourns, a student.
Today
19 West 62nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Bourns A V19 West 62nd, p. 270
- Bourns A Victor clk Mc Mc Prior19 West 62nd, p. 58
- Bourns John D mlwkr BC Plywoods19 West 62nd, p. 58
- Bourns Wm T studt19 West 62nd, p. 58
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.