A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Miatts
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Miatt at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family.
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Where the Miatts lived
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- 2
3226 West 51st Avenue
Kerrisdale, 1940
- W E Miatt, a gardener for S D Brooks 1940
Next door in 1940: A B Gardner at 3246. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a gardener.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Dunbar-Southlands and Kerrisdale. 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 C Miatt at 3200 West 41st Avenue. W E Miatt is listed at 3226 West 51st Avenue 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, where each person's work is printed, lists William E Miatt there as the householder, a gardener for S D Brooks.
Today
3226 West 51st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1920 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 3200 West 41st, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Miatt C3200 West 41st, p. 258
- *Miatt W E3226 West 51st, p. 266
- Miatt Wm E gdnr S D Brooks3226 West 51st, p. 427
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Miatts
Every directory, as one book
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Another name, or a house
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.