A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge
The Findlays
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Findlay at one address, 3851 West 23rd Avenue in Dunbar-Southlands, in 1940. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Findlay name's own page.
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The Findlays at home
Southlands
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3851 West 23rd Avenue
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- A Findlay, a marine engineer 1940
- Charles R Findlay, a clerk at D J Smith Equipment 1940
- Eunelle E Findlay, a stenographer at Marsh & McLennan 1940
Next door in 1940: Miss F A Love at 3847 and J S Cooke at 3859. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a marine engineer and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Dunbar-Southlands. 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
In 1940 the directory lists A Findlay at 3851 West 23rd Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alex Findlay there as the householder, a marine engineer, with Charles R Findlay, a clerk at D J Smith Equipment, and Eunelle E Findlay, a stenographer at Marsh & McLennan.
Today
3851 West 23rd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1930 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Findlay A3851 West 23rd, p. 238
- Findlay Alex mar eng3851 West 23rd, p. 196
- Findlay Chas R clk D J Smith Equip3851 West 23rd, p. 196
- Findlay Eunelle E sten Marsh & McLennan3851 West 23rd, p. 196
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Findlays
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Findlay 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 F. Want a name removed? Tell us.