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A family name on Jervis Street, West End and Downtown

The Clarks

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Clark at three addresses in 1940, all on Jervis 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

    719 Jervis Street

    West End, 1940

    • Anthony V Clarke 1940

    Next door in 1940: denman court at 725. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    736 Jervis Street

    West End, 1940

    • Clark 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Erickson at 720 and Miss D Driver at 738. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    935 Jervis Street

    West End, 1940

    • E A Clark, a clerk at Standard Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Albutt at 909 and W Turner at 945. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a clerk.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West End (3). 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Anthony V Clarke at 719 Jervis Street. The 1940 name section lists Clark at 736 Jervis Street. In 1940 the directory lists E A Clark at 935 Jervis Street. The 1940 name section lists Edward A Clark there as the householder, a clerk at Standard Oil.

Today

935 Jervis still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 719 Jervis and 736 Jervis, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.