A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood
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 Kingsway, 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
- 1
120 Kingsway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- J Clark, a barber 1940
Next door in 1940: Ideal Shoe Rebuilder at 118 and Knitting Mills Jantzen at 196. The block, door by door
- 2
664 Kingsway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- W Clark, a carpenter 1940
Next door in 1940: W Ready at 662 and Kway Clnrs at 666. The block, door by door
- 3
3203 Kingsway
Renfrew-Collingwood, 1940
- Mrs Lillian Clark, a ladies tailor at Parisian Designers 1940
Next door in 1940: B & M Cycle Shop at 3201 and Moore Radio & Elec at 3205. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a carpenter and a ladies tailor.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Renfrew-Collingwood. 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 Clark, a barber, at 120 Kingsway. W Clark is listed at 664 Kingsway in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Clark there as the householder, a carpenter. The 1940 name section lists Mrs Lillian Clark at 3203 Kingsway, a ladies tailor at Parisian Designers.
Today
664 Kingsway still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 120 Kingsway and 3203 Kingsway, 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.
- Clark J barber120 Kingsway, p. 97
- Clark W664 Kingsway, p. 97
- Clark Wm carp664 Kingsway, p. 113
- Clark Mrs Lillian ladies tailor Parisian Designers3203 Kingsway, 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.