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A family name on East 27th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Johnstons

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Johnston at two addresses in 1940, all on East 27th Avenue, with the close spelling Johnstone. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 166 other streets too, all listed on the Johnston name's own page.

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Where the Johnstons lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    835 East 27th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • A Johnston, a chief engineer at Taconite Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: B N Clarke at 827 and R E Wand at 849. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1350 East 27th Avenue

    Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940

    • Mrs A Johnstone, widow of W 1940
    • Edith A Johnstone 1940

    Next door in 1940: R H Mosley at 1342. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a chief engineer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (2). 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 Johnston at 835 East 27th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Albert Johnston there as the householder, a chief engineer at Taconite Ltd. In 1940 the directory lists Mrs A Johnstone at 1350 East 27th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Anna Johnstone there as the householder, widow of W, with Edith A Johnstone.

Today

835 East 27th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1931 by the City's record; 1350 East 27th (1977) 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, street section

The book of the Johnstons

Every directory, as one book

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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 J. Want a name removed? Tell us.