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A family name on Yew Street, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge and Kerrisdale

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 Yew 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

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

    1516 Yew Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • Mrs Cath Martin, a hairdresser at Ladyfair Beauty Shop 1940

    Next door in 1940: G S Hockley Jr at 1512 and H L Macdonald at 1520. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    5467 Yew Street

    Arbutus Ridge, 1940

    • J Martin, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: L Oates at 5455 and Mrs J S Heggie at 5479. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all two: a hairdresser and a laborer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Arbutus Ridge and Kitsilano. 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 Mrs Cath Martin at 1516 Yew Street, a hairdresser at Ladyfair Beauty Shop. J Martin is listed at 5467 Yew Street 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 John Martin there as the householder, a laborer at the City of Vancouver.

Today

1516 Yew (1980) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 5467 Yew, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park
About 1910 Yew Street from 4th Avenue, looking north down the hill to English Bay and Stanley Park. Not at the house at 5467 Yew: no archive photo of the 5400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 1376-80.43. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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.