A family name on Nanton Avenue, Shaughnessy
The Lambs
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Lamb at one address, 1542 Nanton Avenue in Shaughnessy, 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
- 1
1542 Nanton Avenue
Shaughnessy, 1940
- J Lamb, a clerk at A E Ames & Co 1940
- Irene W Lamb, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: Dr W L Graham at 1558. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Shaughnessy. 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 J Lamb at 1542 Nanton 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 James Lamb there as the householder, retired, with J Doug Lamb, a clerk at Royal Trust, James G Lamb, a clerk at A E Ames & Co, and Irene W Lamb, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway.
Today
1542 Nanton still has its building from before 1946, dated 1921 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.
- *Lamb J1542 Nanton, p. 117
- Lamb Irene W sten BCER1542 Nanton, p. 334
- Lamb J Doug clk Royal Trust1542 Nanton, p. 334
- Lamb Jas retired1542 Nanton, p. 334
- Lamb Jas G clk A E Ames & Co1542 Nanton, 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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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.