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A family name on West 12th Avenue, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and West Point Grey

The Clarks

In the city directories 1940 · eight people at four addresses

The directories print eight people named Clark at four addresses in 1940, all on West 12th 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 most under one roof: three Clarks at 4383 West 12th in 1940. 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

    856 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Alma Clark 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L W Muncey at 844 and A L Blackie at 866. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3677 West 12th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C McD Clark, an electrician engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E G Thomson at 3673. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4383 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J B Clark, a customs clerk at the Railway Express Agency 1940
    • George N Clark, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • William H Clark, a stenographer at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs L Child at 4377 and West Pt Grey Presby Ch at 4395. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    4384 West 12th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • J G Clark 1940
    • Annabella G Clark, a housekeeper for J McKissock 1940
    • Norman D Clark, a delivery at Point Grey Flower Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: J M Ross at 4378 and Fire Hall No 19 at 4396. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the eight: a clerk, a customs clerk, a delivery, an electrician engineer, a housekeeper and a stenographer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in West Point Grey (2), Fairview and Kitsilano. 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 Alma Clark at 856 West 12th Avenue. C McD Clark is listed at 3677 West 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Charles McD Clark there as the householder, an electrician engineer.

J B Clark is listed at 4383 West 12th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists James B Clark there as the householder, a customs clerk at the Railway Express Agency, with George N Clark, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway, and William H Clark, a stenographer at the CPR. J G Clark is listed at 4384 West 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists James G Clark there as the householder, with Annabella G Clark, a housekeeper for J McKissock, and Norman D Clark, a delivery at Point Grey Flower Shop.

Today

4383 West 12th and 4384 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 856 West 12th and 3677 West 12th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 11 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

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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.