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A family name on Nelson Street, West End and Downtown

The Irvines

In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address

The directories print three people named Irvine at one address, 1150 Nelson Street in West End, in 1940, with the close spelling Irvin. The directories print the name on 42 other streets too, all listed on the Irvine name's own page.

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The Irvines at home

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).
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    1150 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • A D Irvine, retired 1940
    • Margaret P Irvine, a telephone operator at the Canadian General Electric 1940
    • Marion Irvine, a clerk at the Canadian General Electric 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs J Neilson at 1148 and F O Gunton at 1160. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a clerk and a telephone operator. Two of them worked for Canadian General Electric.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in West End. 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 D Irvine at 1150 Nelson Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alex D Irvine there as the householder, retired, with Margaret P Irvine, a telephone operator at the Canadian General Electric, and Marion Irvine, a clerk at the Canadian General Electric.

Today

1150 Nelson (1974) has a newer building, by the City's record.

Nelson Street, a wide street of houses behind hedges
About 1915 Nelson Street, a wide street of houses behind hedges. Not at the house at 1150 Nelson: no archive photo of the 1100 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P181.2. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Irvines

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Irvine 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 I. Want a name removed? Tell us.