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A family name on Birch Street, Fairview and Marpole

The Clarks

In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address

The directories print one person named Clark at one address, 2286 Birch Street in Fairview, in 1940, with the close spelling Clarke. The directories print the name on 176 other streets too, all listed on the Clark name's own page.

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The Clarks at home

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).
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    2286 Birch Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • M Clark, a janitor at D J Smith Equipment 1940

What they did

The name section prints a trade for the one person: a janitor.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Fairview. 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 Clark at 2286 Birch Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Michael Clark there as the householder, a janitor at D J Smith Equipment.

Today

The City no longer lists 2286 Birch, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Cecily R. Hunt, a small child in a bonnet, on the porch of a house at 7th Avenue and Birch Street
About 1913 Cecily R. Hunt, a small child in a bonnet, on the porch of a house at 7th Avenue and Birch Street. Not at the house at 2286 Birch: no archive photo of the 2200 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 82-14. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 2 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 Clarks

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.