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

The Curries

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Currie at three addresses in 1940, all on West 12th Avenue. 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 Curries at 1190 West 12th in 1940. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the Currie name's own page.

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Where the Curries 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

    355 West 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Llyod Currie, a bookkeeper at Westminster Breweries 1940

    Next door in 1940: E F Church at 345. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    550 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Elspeth Currie, who worked for the Vancouver General Hospital 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Eaton at 548 and N P Cormier at 584. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1190 West 12th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Miss M Currie 1940
    • Marion Currie, a nurse 1940
    • Norman M Currie 1940

    Next door in 1940: randolph apartments at 1176. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the five: a bookkeeper and a nurse.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview (2) and Mount Pleasant. 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 Llyod Currie at 355 West 12th Avenue, a bookkeeper at Westminster Breweries. The 1940 name section lists Elspeth Currie at 550 West 12th Avenue, who worked for the Vancouver General Hospital. In 1940 the directory lists Miss M Currie at 1190 West 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Marion Currie there as the householder, a nurse, with Norman M Currie.

Today

355 West 12th and 1190 West 12th still have their buildings from before 1946; 550 West 12th (1965) has a newer building, by the City's record.

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 Curries

Every directory, as one book

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: 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.