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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Clarkstones

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Clarkstone at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Clarkstones 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

    1125 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • F Clarkstone 1940

    Next door in 1940: Hemenway & Son at 1123 and L N Gowdy at 1127. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1175 Maple Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Jessie Clarkston, a saleswoman at Spencer's 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs Galbraith at 1165 and W C Moran at 1185. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1497 West 7th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • F Clarkstone 1940
    • Mrs Elizabeth A Clarkstone, proprietor of Betty's Ladies' Wear 1940

    Next door in 1940: E J Doughtery at 1473. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a proprietor and a saleswoman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, 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 F Clarkstone at 1125 Granville Street. The 1940 name section lists Jessie Clarkston at 1175 Maple Street, a saleswoman at Spencer's. In 1940 the directory lists F Clarkstone at 1497 West 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Frederick Clarkstone there as the householder, with Mrs Elizabeth A Clarkstone, proprietor of Betty's Ladies' Wear.

Today

1125 Granville still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1175 Maple and 1497 West 7th, 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 Clarkstones

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.