A family name on Blenheim Street, Dunbar-Southlands, Kitsilano and Kerrisdale
The Martins
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Martin at two addresses in 1940, all on Blenheim 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 156 other streets too, all listed on the Martin name's own page.
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Where the Martins lived
- 1
4331 Blenheim Street
Dunbar-Southlands, 1940
- T M Martin 1940
- Elizabeth M Martin, a bookkeeper at Pacific Coast Pipe 1940
Next door in 1940: K Dodson at 4319 and G G Dempster at 4355. The block, door by door
- 2
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a bookkeeper and a clerk.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands (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 T M Martin at 4331 Blenheim Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Tom M Martin there as the householder, with Elizabeth M Martin, a bookkeeper at Pacific Coast Pipe. The 1940 name section lists Mrs M Alice Martin at 5369 Blenheim Street, a clerk at the Bank of Montreal.
Today
4331 Blenheim still has its building from before 1946, dated 1914 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5369 Blenheim, 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.
- Martin T M4331 Blenheim, p. 13
- Martin Eliz M bkpr Pac Coast Pipe4331 Blenheim, p. 416
- Martin Tom M4331 Blenheim, p. 417
- Martin Mrs M Alice clk Bk of Mont5369 Blenheim, p. 417
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Martins
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Martin 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 M. Want a name removed? Tell us.