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A family name on Quebec Street, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Sunset

The Martins

In the city directories 1935–1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Martin at three addresses between 1935 and 1940, all on Quebec Street. 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

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

    2649 Quebec Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1935

    • Mrs M J Martin 1935
  2. 2

    3320 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • W Martin 1940

    Next door in 1940: W H Perry at 3328. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    4764 Quebec Street

    Riley Park, 1940

    • J L Martin, a caretaker at Home Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: R N Pinton at 4746 and J McMurdo at 4796. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a caretaker.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Riley Park (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

In 1935 the directory lists Mrs M J Martin at 2649 Quebec Street. W Martin is listed at 3320 Quebec Street in 1940. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Walter Martin there as the householder.

J L Martin is listed at 4764 Quebec Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists John L Martin there as the householder, a caretaker at Home Oil.

Today

2649 Quebec and 4764 Quebec still have their buildings from before 1946, 2649 Quebec on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 3320 Quebec (1974) has a newer building, by the City's record.

A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th
1900 A girl at the dirt crossing of 10th Avenue and Quebec Street, looking east along 10th. Not at the house at 3320 Quebec: no archive photo of the 3300 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Str P273. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1935

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

1940

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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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.