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A family name on Nicola Street, West End

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 Nicola 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

    804 Nicola Street

    West End, 1940

    • Horace G Clarke, an engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: Wiltshire at 814. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1004 Nicola Street

    West End, 1940

    • Florence E Clark 1940
    • Robert H Clark 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss A Bayne at 1008. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1160 Nicola Street

    West End, 1940

    • W E Clarke, a clerk at H R MacMillan Export 1940

    Next door in 1940: chatteris apts at 1108 and House Seafield at 1186. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a clerk and an engineer.

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 Horace G Clarke at 804 Nicola Street, an engineer. The 1940 name section lists Florence E Clark at 1004 Nicola Street, with Robert H Clark. In 1940 the directory lists W E Clarke at 1160 Nicola Street. The 1940 name section lists William E Clarke there as the householder, a clerk at H R MacMillan Export.

Today

1160 Nicola still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 804 Nicola and 1004 Nicola, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 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

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.