A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Maybees
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Maybee at one address, 2735 West 6th Avenue in Kitsilano, in 1940.
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The Maybees at home
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2735 West 6th Avenue
Kitsilano, 1940
- O A Maybee, an agent at Canada Life 1940
- Altha Maybee, a stenographer 1940
- Grace M Maybee, a stenographer for Davidson Wright 1940
- Marjorie Maybee, an operator at Bartram Paper Products 1940
Next door in 1940: E L Sutton at 2727 and N A McLeod at 2741. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all four: a stenographer (2), an agent and an operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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
In 1940 the directory lists O A Maybee at 2735 West 6th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Orrin A Maybee there as the householder, an agent at Canada Life, with Altha Maybee, a stenographer, Grace M Maybee, a stenographer for Davidson Wright, and Marjorie Maybee, an operator at Bartram Paper Products.
Today
The City no longer lists 2735 West 6th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Maybee O A2735 West 6th, p. 188
- Maybee Altha sten2735 West 6th, p. 422
- Maybee Grace M sten Davidson Wright2735 West 6th, p. 422
- Maybee Marjorie opr Bartram Paper Prod2735 West 6th, p. 422
- Maybee Orrin A agt Canada Life2735 West 6th, p. 422
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Maybees
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Maybee 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.