A family name on East 14th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Lambs
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Lamb at one address, 1763 East 14th Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 43 other streets too, all listed on the Lamb name's own page.
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The Lambs at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1763 East 14th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- Mrs A Lamb, widow of C 1940
- Clement Lamb, a salesman at Woodward's 1940
- Doris Lamb, a school teacher 1940
Next door in 1940: W G Bremner at 1759 and Mrs E Wilson at 1765. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a salesman and a school teacher. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 Mrs A Lamb at 1763 East 14th Avenue; 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 Agnes Lamb there as the householder, widow of C, with Clement Lamb, a salesman at Woodward's, and Doris Lamb, a school teacher.
Today
The City no longer lists 1763 East 14th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Lamb Mrs A1763 East 14th, p. 214
- Lamb Agnes wid C1763 East 14th, p. 334
- Lamb Clement slsmn Woodwards1763 East 14th, p. 334
- Lamb Doris sch tchr Van City1763 East 14th, p. 334
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Lambs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Lamb 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 L. Want a name removed? Tell us.