A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Clarks
In the city directories 1930–1945 · 382 addresses on 177 streets
The directories print the Clark name at 382 addresses on 177 streets between 1930 and 1945, in 22 of the city's neighbourhoods, with the close spelling Clarke. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.
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Where the Clarks lived
- West End42 addresses
- Downtown41 addresses
- Kitsilano39 addresses
- Fairview29 addresses
- Mount Pleasant28 addresses
- Dunbar-Southlands26 addresses
- Grandview-Woodland22 addresses
- Riley Park21 addresses
- Kensington-Cedar Cottage20 addresses
- West Point Grey17 addresses
- Kerrisdale16 addresses
- Hastings-Sunrise15 addresses
- Shaughnessy11 addresses
- Strathcona11 addresses
- Sunset11 addresses
- Renfrew-Collingwood10 addresses
- Marpole7 addresses
- Arbutus Ridge6 addresses
- Victoria-Fraserview5 addresses
- South Cambie3 addresses
- Killarney1 address
- Oakridge1 address
Where the name was printed
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- 1Granville StreetNine addresses in Downtown, Fairview, Shaughnessy and Marpole; twelve people: H M Clark, J M Clark and W S Clark, and nine more1940
- 2Haro StreetEight addresses in West End; 13 people: C P Clark, G P Clarke and Mrs J Clark, and ten more1940
- 3West 10th AvenueEight addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; 15 people: A Clark, Dr W B Clarke and Mrs C A Clark, and twelve more1940
- 4West 13th AvenueEight addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; 15 people: J Clark, Mrs A Clarke and Mrs A F Clarke, and twelve more1940
- 5East Hastings StreetSeven addresses in Downtown, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise; nine people: A Clark, J Clarke and T G Clark, and six more1940
- 6West BroadwaySeven addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; eleven people: A E Clark, J Clark and Mrs H G Clarke, and eight more1940
- 7Angus DriveSix addresses in Shaughnessy and Kerrisdale; ten people: A W G Clark, C B Clark and G H Clarke, and seven more1940
- 8West 14th AvenueSix addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; eleven people: C Clark, E W Clark and G U Clarke, and eight more1940
- 9West 20th AvenueSix addresses in Riley Park, South Cambie and Dunbar-Southlands; eight people: C R Clarke, G W Clarke and H E Clarke, and five more1940
- 10West 6th AvenueSix addresses in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; nine people: A H Clark, A M Clark and H E Clarke, and six more1940
- 11West 7th AvenueSix addresses in Fairview and Kitsilano; nine people: G Clarke, S Clarke and Angus B Clark, and six more1940
- 12West Pender StreetSix addresses in Downtown; seven people: C P Clark, Eileen Clark and G T Clarke, and four more1940
165 more streets, by name: Abbott Street (2), Alberta Street (1), Alexander Street (2), Alma Street (1), Balsam Street (1), Barclay Street (2), Beach Avenue (2), Birch Street (1), Blenheim Street (1), Broughton Street (4), Burrard Street (3), Bute Street (3), Cambie Street (2), Carnarvon Street (1), Church Street (1), Clarendon Street (1), Collingwood Street (2), Commercial Street (1), Comox Street (1), Connaught Drive (1), Cornwall Avenue (1), Cotton Drive (1), Creelman Avenue (1), Crown Crescent (2), Cypress Street (2), Davie Street (4), Drake Street (1), Dunbar Street (3), Dundas Street (2), Dunsmuir Street (1), East 10th Avenue (2), East 11th Avenue (1), East 12th Avenue (1), East 13th Avenue (2), East 15th Avenue (2), East 16th Avenue (4), East 18th Avenue (2), East 19th Avenue (1), East 1st Avenue (1), East 21st Avenue (3), East 22nd Avenue (1), East 24th Avenue (1), East 27th Avenue (2), East 28th Avenue (1), East 29th Avenue (2), East 30th Avenue (1), East 31st Avenue (1), East 34th Avenue (2), East 35th Avenue (1), East 36th Avenue (1), East 38th Avenue (1), East 43rd Avenue (1), East 45th Avenue (2), East 47th Avenue (4), East 4th Avenue (1), East 51st Avenue (1), East 52nd Avenue (1), East 55th Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (1), East 60th Avenue (3), East 6th Avenue (3), East 7th Avenue (5), East 8th Avenue (3), East Broadway (1), East Georgia Street (1), East Pender Street (2), Elgin Street (1), Frances Street (1), Franklin Street (1), Fraser Street (2), Glen Drive (2), Grant Street (1), Graveley Street (2), Hamilton Street (3), Harwood Street (2), Heather Street (4), Hemlock Street (3), Highbury Street (1), Hornby Street (3), Howe Street (1), Hudson Street (2), Inverness Street (1), James Street (1), Jervis Street (3), Joyce Street (1), Kingsway (3), Kitchener Street (1), Knight Street (1), Laburnum Street (1), Locarno Crescent (1), Macdonald Street (1), Main Street (4), Manitoba Street (1), Maple Street (2), McGill Street (2), Melville Street (1), Miller Street (1), Montcalm Street (1), Moss Street (1), Nanaimo Street (1), Napier Street (1), Nelson Street (5), Nicola Street (3), Nootka Street (1), Oak Street (1), Ontario Street (3), Pacific Street (1), Parker Street (2), Pine Street (1), Powell Street (1), Prince Albert Street (1), Prior Street (1), Quilchena Crescent (1), Renfrew Street (3), Richards Street (1), Robson Street (5), Rupert Street (1), Semlin Drive (1), Seymour Street (2), Smithe Street (1), Sophia Street (2), Thurlow Street (1), Trafalgar Street (1), Turner Street (1), Venables Street (2), Victoria Drive (1), Vine Street (2), Walden Street (1), Waterloo Street (1), West 11th Avenue (5), West 12th Avenue (4), West 15th Avenue (2), West 16th Avenue (5), West 17th Avenue (1), West 18th Avenue (3), West 19th Avenue (3), West 1st Avenue (4), West 22nd Avenue (1), West 23rd Avenue (2), West 27th Avenue (4), West 28th Avenue (1), West 29th Avenue (2), West 2nd Avenue (2), West 30th Avenue (1), West 31st Avenue (1), West 33rd Avenue (2), West 34th Avenue (2), West 35th Avenue (1), West 36th Avenue (1), West 38th Avenue (2), West 39th Avenue (1), West 3rd Avenue (5), West 43rd Avenue (1), West 45th Avenue (1), West 48th Avenue (1), West 49th Avenue (3), West 4th Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (2), West 70th Avenue (1), West 8th Avenue (2), West Cordova Street (1), West Georgia Street (3), West King Edward Avenue (4), Windsor Street (3), Yew Street (2).
Today
By the City's record, of the 382 addresses, 131 still have their buildings from before 1946, one has a building standing whose year the City doesn't record, 87 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 163; each street's page names them.
The book of the Clarks
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Clark 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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Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under C. Want a name removed? Tell us.