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A family name on West 15th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Butlers

In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses

The directories print five people named Butler at two addresses in 1940, all on West 15th Avenue, with the close spelling Buttler. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Butlers at 1575 West 15th in 1940. The directories print the name on 54 other streets too, all listed on the Butler name's own page.

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Where the Butlers 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

    1575 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • A J Butler, a sawyer 1940
    • Arthur M Butler, a marker at Canadian White Pine 1940
    • Edythe M Butler, a stenographer at Toronto General Trust 1940
    • Mona B Butler, a teacher at the Pitman Business College 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs P E Mathieson at 1565 and oxford apts at 1585. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1756 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • J C Butler 1940

    Next door in 1940: J V Deildal at 1746 and L D Douglas at 1776. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a marker, a sawyer, a stenographer and a teacher.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (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

In 1940 the directory lists A J Butler at 1575 West 15th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Arthur J Butler there as the householder, a sawyer, with Arthur M Butler, a marker at Canadian White Pine, Edythe M Butler, a stenographer at Toronto General Trust, and Mona B Butler, a teacher at the Pitman Business College. In 1940 the directory lists J C Butler at 1756 West 15th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists James C Butler there as the householder.

Today

1575 West 15th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1929 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 1756 West 15th (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Butlers

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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.