A family name on Alexander Street, Strathcona and Downtown
The Clarks
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Clark at two addresses in 1940, all on Alexander Street, with the close spelling Clarke. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 176 other streets too, all listed on the Clark name's own page.
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Where the Clarks lived
- 1
50 Alexander Street
Downtown, 1940
- V Clarke, in office supplies 1940
Next door in 1940: Timms Prntg at 48 and Circuit Motor Trans at 54. The block, door by door
- 2
220 Alexander Street
Strathcona, 1940
- E Clark, a deckhand at Commodore Towing 1940
Next door in 1940: D Machida at 230. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a deckhand.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Downtown and Strathcona. 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 V Clarke, in office supplies, at 50 Alexander Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists E Clark at 220 Alexander Street, a deckhand at Commodore Towing.
Today
220 Alexander still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 50 Alexander, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Clarke V office supps50 Alexander, p. 3
- Clark E deckhd Commodore Towing220 Alexander, p. 112
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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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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.