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A family name on East 47th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney

The Clarks

In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses

The directories print five people named Clark at four addresses in 1940, all on East 47th Avenue, 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

    3 East 47th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • Miss N A Clark, a music teacher 1940

    Next door in 1940: F D Gibson at 11. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    491 East 47th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • C N Clark, a branch manager at Cunningham Drug 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Paulsen at 487. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    558 East 47th Avenue

    Sunset, 1940

    • L H Clark, an engineer 1940
    • Betty S Clark, a saleswoman for A E Cole 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Grice at 566. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2065 East 47th Avenue

    Victoria-Fraserview, 1940

    • G L Clark, who worked for Growers Wine 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Smith at 2085. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a branch manager, an employee, an engineer and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Sunset (3) and Victoria-Fraserview. 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 Miss N A Clark, a music teacher, at 3 East 47th Avenue. C N Clark is listed at 491 East 47th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Cornelius N Clark there as the householder, a branch manager at Cunningham Drug.

L H Clark is listed at 558 East 47th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Leslie H Clark there as the householder, an engineer, with Betty S Clark, a saleswoman for A E Cole. G L Clark is listed at 2065 East 47th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists George L Clark there as the householder, who worked for Growers Wine.

Today

558 East 47th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; 2065 East 47th (1974) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3 East 47th and 491 East 47th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.