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A family name on Bute Street, West End and Downtown

The Clarks

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Clark at three addresses in 1940, all on Bute Street, with the close spelling Clarke. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

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).
  1. 1

    601 Bute Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • J F Clark 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs D E Macnaughton at 647. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    884 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • P C Clark 1940

    Next door in 1940: Bute Lodge at 836 and Mrs A Dann at 894. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    990 Bute Street

    West End, 1940

    • Miss A D Clarke 1940
    • Agnes D Clarke, a stenographer at H J Paisley & Co 1940

    Next door in 1940: norwood (the) at 958. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (2) and Downtown. 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 J F Clark at 601 Bute Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists John F Clark there as the householder. In 1940 the directory lists P C Clark at 884 Bute Street. The 1940 name section lists Percival C Clark there as the householder.

In 1940 the directory lists Miss A D Clarke at 990 Bute Street. The 1940 name section lists Agnes D Clarke there as the householder, a stenographer at H J Paisley & Co.

Today

601 Bute, 884 Bute and 990 Bute still have their buildings from before 1946, 601 Bute and 884 Bute on the Vancouver Heritage Register.

Every line as printed

All 6 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

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: 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.