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A family name on Dunbar Street, Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano

The Marshalls

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Marshall at two addresses in 1940, all on Dunbar Street. 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 102 other streets too, all listed on the Marshall name's own page.

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Where the Marshalls lived

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).
  1. 1

    1742 Dunbar Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • C A Marshall, a salesman at Spencer's 1940
    • Doug C Marshall 1940

    Next door in 1940: F R Macdonald at 1734 and Mrs F O Lloyd at 1748. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4253 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • W Marshall 1940
    • Mrs M L Marshall, a confectioner 1940

    Next door in 1940: Scottish Ham Curers at 4245 and N H Schwarze at 4255. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the four: a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and Kitsilano. 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 C A Marshall at 1742 Dunbar Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Crosbie A Marshall there as the householder, a salesman at Spencer's, with Doug C Marshall.

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs M L Marshall, a confectioner, at 4253 Dunbar Street. By 1940 it is W Marshall. The 1940 name section lists William Marshall there as the householder.

Today

1742 Dunbar still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register; the City no longer lists 4253 Dunbar, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows
1940 A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows. Not at the house at 1742 Dunbar: no archive photo of the 1700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.530. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 6 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 Marshalls

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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.