A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Millens
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Millen 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 Millens lived
- 1
- 2
2603 Main Street
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- J Millen, a pressman for A H Timms 1940
Next door in 1940: H Hargreaves at 2601 and H B Bragg at 2611. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: an engineer and a pressman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant and Riley Park. 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 H Millen at 297 East 40th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Howard Millen there as the householder, an engineer at Flack Block. In 1940 the directory lists J Millen at 2603 Main Street. The 1940 name section lists John Millen there as the householder, a pressman for A H Timms.
Today
2603 Main still has its building from before 1946, dated 1910 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 297 East 40th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Millen H297 East 40th, p. 256
- Millen Howard eng Flack Blk297 East 40th, p. 429
- Millen J2603 Main, p. 108
- Millen John prsmn A H Timms2603 Main, p. 429
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Millens
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Millen 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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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.