A family name on East 49th Avenue, Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview and Killarney
The Martins
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Martin at two addresses in 1940, all on East 49th Avenue. 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
524 East 49th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- Henry L Martin, a clerk at the Bank of Nova Scotia 1940
Next door in 1940: G Youmans at 506 and Rev W Garbutt at 534. The block, door by door
- 2
1090 East 49th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- C F Martin, a clerk at the Royal Bank 1940
Next door in 1940: J Brown at 1060. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk (2).
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Sunset (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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Henry L Martin at 524 East 49th Avenue, a clerk at the Bank of Nova Scotia. C F Martin is listed at 1090 East 49th Avenue in 1940; 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 Charles F Martin there as the householder, a clerk at the Royal Bank.
Today
524 East 49th and 1090 East 49th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Martin Henry L clk Bk of NS524 East 49th, p. 416
- *Martin C F1090 East 49th, p. 265
- Martin Chas F clk Royal Bk1090 East 49th, p. 416
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
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.