A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The McCarrys
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named McCarry at one address, 1073 Seymour Street in Downtown, in 1940.
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The McCarrys at home
- 1
1073 Seymour Street
Downtown, 1940
- E McCarry, a stenographer at BC Packers 1940
- James J McCarry, a factory worker for Coca Cola 1940
- Thomas J McCarry, a clerk at the Southern Pacific Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: J Naples at 1067 and J E Battaye at 1079. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a factory worker and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 E McCarry at 1073 Seymour Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Edward McCarry there as the householder, a chauffeur for Owl Cabs, with Elizabeth McCarry, a stenographer at BC Packers, James J McCarry, a factory worker for Coca Cola, and Thomas J McCarry, a clerk at the Southern Pacific Railway.
Today
The City no longer lists 1073 Seymour, 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.
- *McCarry E1073 Seymour, p. 151
- McCarry Edw chauf Owl Cabs1073 Seymour, p. 364
- McCarry Eliz sten BC Pkrs1073 Seymour, p. 364
- McCarry Jas J fcty wkr Coca Cola1073 Seymour, p. 364
- McCarry Thos J clk Southern Pac Ry1073 Seymour, p. 364
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the McCarrys
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the McCarry 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.