A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Charnauds
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Charnaud at two addresses in 1940 in Kitsilano. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Charnauds lived
- 1
2422 Vine Street
Kitsilano, 1940
- Mrs Kath A Charnaud, a housekeeper at the Shaughnessy Hospital Canadian Government 1940
Next door in 1940: F J Ellison at 2416 and Mrs M Woodward at 2440. The block, door by door
- 2
3010 West 5th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- Mrs M E Charnaud, widow of C E 1940
Next door in 1940: J W Mahony at 3020. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a housekeeper. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kitsilano (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 Mrs Kath A Charnaud at 2422 Vine Street, a housekeeper at the Shaughnessy Hospital Canadian Government. Mrs M E Charnaud is listed at 3010 West 5th Avenue 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 Marie E Charnaud there as the householder, widow of C E.
Today
2422 Vine and 3010 West 5th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Charnaud Mrs Kath A hsekpr Shaugh Hosp Can Govt2422 Vine, p. 107
- *Charnaud Mrs M E3010 West 5th, p. 185
- Charnaud Marie E wid C E3010 West 5th, p. 107
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Charnauds
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Charnaud 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 C. Want a name removed? Tell us.