A family name on French Street, Marpole
The Howards
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Howard at one address, 8695 French Street in Marpole, in 1940. The directories print the name on 53 other streets too, all listed on the Howard name's own page.
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The Howards at home
- 1
8695 French Street
Marpole, 1940
- A F Howard, an engineer at Sterling Lumber 1940
- A Murray Howard, an engineer 1940
- Edna G Howard, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
- Murray Howard, an engineer at Homalko Log 1940
Next door in 1940: L W Ridley at 8685. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: an engineer (3) and a nurse.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Marpole. 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 F Howard at 8695 French Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Albert F Howard there as the householder, an engineer at Sterling Lumber, with A Murray Howard, an engineer, Edna G Howard, a nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital, and Murray Howard, an engineer at Homalko Log.
Today
The City no longer lists 8695 French, so that building is 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.
- *Howard A F8695 French, p. 54
- Howard A Murray eng8695 French, p. 284
- Howard Albt F eng Sterling Lbr8695 French, p. 284
- Howard Edna G nurse Van Genl Hosp8695 French, p. 284
- Howard Murray eng Homalko Log8695 French, p. 284
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Howards
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Howard 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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Another name, or a house
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 H. Want a name removed? Tell us.