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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Curries

In the city directories 1940 · 67 addresses on 54 streets

The directories print the Currie name at 67 addresses on 54 streets in 1940, in 19 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.

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Where the Curries lived

Each mark counts the addresses the name was printed at in that neighbourhood. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. Fairview7 addresses
  2. Kitsilano7 addresses
  3. West End7 addresses
  4. Downtown6 addresses
  5. Mount Pleasant6 addresses
  6. Dunbar-Southlands4 addresses
  7. Marpole4 addresses
  8. Arbutus Ridge3 addresses
  9. Grandview-Woodland3 addresses
  10. Sunset3 addresses
  11. Victoria-Fraserview3 addresses
  12. West Point Grey3 addresses
  13. Hastings-Sunrise2 addresses
  14. Kensington-Cedar Cottage2 addresses
  15. Kerrisdale2 addresses
  16. Riley Park2 addresses
  17. Renfrew-Collingwood1 address
  18. Shaughnessy1 address
  19. Strathcona1 address

Where the name was printed

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  1. 1
    Comox StreetThree addresses in West End; four people: J K H Currie, Florence M Currie and Margaret Currie, and one more
    1940
  2. 2
    West 12th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Fairview; five people: Elspeth Currie, Llyod Currie and Marion Currie, and two more
    1940
  3. 3
    West 18th AvenueThree addresses in Riley Park, Arbutus Ridge and Dunbar-Southlands; nine people: M C Currie, Mrs C E Currie and Mrs M Currie, and six more
    1940
  4. 4
    Montcalm StreetTwo addresses in Marpole; three people: J G D Currie, Mrs M F Currie and Stewart C Currie
    1940
  5. 5
    West 13th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; four people: B M Currie, R M Currie and Eveyn M Currie, and one more
    1940
  6. 6
    West 14th AvenueTwo addresses in Fairview and West Point Grey; three people: Hattie Currie, Isabel M Currie and Miss I M Currie
    1940
  7. 7
    West 34th AvenueTwo addresses in Dunbar-Southlands; two people: N Currie and Edith E Currie
    1940
  8. 8
    West 3rd AvenueTwo addresses in Kitsilano; two people: W B Currie and Mrs N E Currie
    1940
  9. 9
    West 41st AvenueTwo addresses in Arbutus Ridge; four people: D H Currie, Mrs L A Currie and D Scott Currie, and one more
    1940
  10. 10
    West Pender StreetTwo addresses in Downtown; two people: Albert Curie and Hugh Currie
    1940
  11. 11
    Aberdeen StreetOne address in Renfrew-Collingwood; two people: J Currie and Christina A Currie
    1940
  12. 12
    Beatrice StreetOne address in Victoria-Fraserview; one person: J J Currie
    1940

42 more streets, by name: Blenheim Street (1), Broughton Street (1), Cardero Street (1), Cartier Street (1), Chester Street (1), Culloden Street (1), Devonshire Crescent (1), East 10th Avenue (1), East 12th Avenue (1), East 1st Avenue (1), East 24th Avenue (1), East 41st Avenue (1), East 48th Avenue (1), East 59th Avenue (1), East 7th Avenue (1), East Hastings Street (1), Franklin Street (1), French Street (1), Granville Street (1), Haro Street (1), Hemlock Street (1), Hornby Street (1), Macdonald Street (1), McGill Street (1), Ontario Street (1), Pandora Street (1), Quebec Street (1), Richards Street (1), Thurlow Street (1), Turner Street (1), Victoria Drive (1), West 10th Avenue (1), West 11th Avenue (1), West 16th Avenue (1), West 33rd Avenue (1), West 45th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 6th Avenue (1), West 8th Avenue (1), West Broadway (1), West Cordova Street (1), Yew Street (1).

Today

By the City's record, of the 67 addresses, 28 still have their buildings from before 1946, 18 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 21; each street's page names them.

The book of the Curries

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The family book reads the Currie 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 (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under C. Want a name removed? Tell us.