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A family name on West Pender Street, Downtown

The Martins

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Martin at three addresses in 1940, all on West Pender 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. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    615 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • W E Martin, in insurance 1940

    Next door in 1940: B C Office Equip Co at 611 and Good Eats Cafe Ltd at 619. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    940 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Aubrey G Martin, a longshoreman 1940

    Next door in 1940: Lundberg A Co at 938 and L J Mahrer at 942. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1025 West Pender Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • F N Martin, a mate at the BC Coast Steamship Service 1940
    • F W Martin, a seaman at the BC Coast Steamship Service 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mining Reward at 1021 and Town Hall at 1027. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a longshoreman, a mate and a seaman. Two of them worked for BC Coast Steamship Service.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown (3). 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 W E Martin, in insurance, at 615 West Pender Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Aubrey G Martin at 940 West Pender Street, a longshoreman. The 1940 name section lists F N Martin at 1025 West Pender Street, a master mariner, with Frank N Martin, a mate at the BC Coast Steamship Service, F W Martin, a master mariner, and Frederick W Martin, a seaman at the BC Coast Steamship Service.

Today

The City no longer lists 615 West Pender, 940 West Pender and 1025 West Pender, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

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 Martins

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.