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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Malpasses

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Malpass at three addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Malpasses 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

    676 West 11th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Arnold B Malpass, proprietor of BC Radio Supply 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss A Muirhead at 664. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    710 West 16th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • Miss E D Malpass, a beauty shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss F M Mitchell at 708 and C W Stodgell at 712. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    915 West 17th Avenue

    South Cambie, 1940

    • T Malpass, a clerk at CP Express 1940
    • Evelyn D Malpass, who ran a beauty shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: W H Caswell at 905 and T E Ward at 917. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a beauty shop, a clerk and a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in South Cambie (2) and Mount Pleasant. 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Arnold B Malpass at 676 West 11th Avenue, proprietor of BC Radio Supply. Miss E D Malpass, a beauty shop, is listed at 710 West 16th Avenue in 1940. In 1940 the directory lists T Malpass at 915 West 17th 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 lists Thomas Malpass there as the householder, a clerk at CP Express, with Evelyn D Malpass, who ran a beauty shop.

Today

710 West 16th and 915 West 17th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 676 West 11th, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Malpasses

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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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.