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A family name on West 6th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Clarks

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at six addresses

The directories print nine people named Clark at six addresses in 1940, all on West 6th 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 3322 West 6th 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

    434 West 6th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Florence Clark, widow of W 1940
    • William G Clark, a baker at Canadian Bakeries 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Kump at 422 and F Schober at 442. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2245 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W J Clarke, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: R D McAllister at 2235 and J A O'Connor at 2253. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2323 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • H E Clarke, a marine engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: A M Rentfrow at 2315 and A MacKay at 2335. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    3256 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Ian Clarke, a salesman at Murray's 1940

    Next door in 1940: H T R Mason at 3254 and R Lay at 3264. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3322 West 6th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A H Clark, a manufacturers agent 1940
    • Phyllis Clark 1940
    • Richard J Clark, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: T Winton at 3304 and C A Mason at 3336. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    4422 West 6th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • A M Clark, a credit manager at Western Agencies 1940

    Next door in 1940: Rev H W Dobson at 4408 and D A Bremner at 4428. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for six of the nine: a baker, a conductor, a credit manager, a manufacturers agent, a marine engineer and a salesman. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano (4), Mount Pleasant and West Point Grey. 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 Florence Clark at 434 West 6th Avenue, widow of W, with William G Clark, a baker at Canadian Bakeries. W J Clarke is listed at 2245 West 6th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William J Clarke there as the householder, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway.

H E Clarke is listed at 2323 West 6th 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 Herman E Clarke there as the householder, a marine engineer. The 1940 name section lists Ian Clarke at 3256 West 6th Avenue, a salesman at Murray's.

In 1940 the directory lists A H Clark at 3322 West 6th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Aubrey H Clark there as the householder, a manufacturers agent, with Phyllis Clark, and Richard J Clark, a student at UBC. In 1940 the directory lists A M Clark at 4422 West 6th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Arnot M Clark there as the householder, a credit manager at Western Agencies.

Today

2323 West 6th, 3256 West 6th and 3322 West 6th still have their buildings from before 1946, 2323 West 6th on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 434 West 6th and 2245 West 6th, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred); for 4422 West 6th, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.

Every line as printed

All 13 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

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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.