A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Martins
In the city directories 1940 · four people at four addresses
The directories print four people named Martin at four addresses in 1940, all on East 7th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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
611 East 7th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Karoll Martin, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: J T Thomson at 653. The block, door by door
- 2
2580 East 7th Avenue
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- Evelyn Martin, a laundress at the Vancouver General Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: R F Bidnell at 2566 and A Muir at 2586. The block, door by door
- 3
3209 East 7th Avenue
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- V Martin, a longshoreman 1940
Next door in 1940: J D Joyce at 3211. The block, door by door
- 4
3216 East 7th Avenue
Hastings-Sunrise, 1940
- W M Martin, a laborer 1940
Next door in 1940: A Davis at 3236. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a longshoreman (2), a laborer and a laundress.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Hastings-Sunrise (3) 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 Karoll Martin at 611 East 7th Avenue as the householder, a longshoreman. The 1940 name section lists Evelyn Martin at 2580 East 7th Avenue, a laundress at the Vancouver General Hospital. In 1940 the directory lists V Martin at 3209 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Victor Martin there as the householder, a longshoreman.
In 1940 the directory lists W M Martin at 3216 East 7th 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 William M Martin there as the householder, a laborer.
Today
611 East 7th and 2580 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946; 3209 East 7th (1993) and 3216 East 7th (1980) have newer buildings, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Martin Karoll lngshmn611 East 7th, p. 417
- Martin Evelyn lndrs Van Genl Hosp2580 East 7th, p. 416
- Martin V3209 East 7th, p. 191
- Martin Victor lngshmn3209 East 7th, p. 417
- *Martin W M3216 East 7th, p. 191
- Martin Wm M lab3216 East 7th, p. 417
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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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.