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A family name on East 56th Avenue, Sunset and Victoria-Fraserview

The Campbells

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Campbell at two addresses in 1940, all on East 56th Avenue. 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: three Campbells at 340 East 56th in 1940. The directories print the name on 204 other streets too, all listed on the Campbell name's own page.

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Where the Campbells lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    340 East 56th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • M Campbell, a millworker 1940
    • John Campbell, a longshoreman 1940
    • Kathleen Campbell 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Mielke at 334 and E P Olson at 356. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2640 East 56th Avenue

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • W A Campbell, a carpenter 1940
    • Alex F Campbell, a salesman at Spencer's 1940
    • Mary R Campbell, an accountant at Hudson-Harvey 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Dennett at 2634. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the six: an accountant, a carpenter, a longshoreman, a millworker and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Sunset and Victoria-Fraserview. 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 M Campbell at 340 East 56th 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 Murdoch Campbell there as the householder, a longshoreman, with Murdoch A Campbell, a millworker, John Campbell, a longshoreman, and Kathleen Campbell. In 1940 the directory lists W A Campbell at 2640 East 56th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William A Campbell there as the householder, a carpenter, with Alex F Campbell, a salesman at Spencer's, and Mary R Campbell, an accountant at Hudson-Harvey.

Today

340 East 56th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1922 by the City's record; 2640 East 56th (1983) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Every line as printed

All 9 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 Campbells

Every directory, as one book

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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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.