A family name on Broughton Street, West End
The Millers
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Miller at two addresses in 1940, all on Broughton Street, with the close spelling Millier. 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 159 other streets too, all listed on the Miller name's own page.
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Where the Millers lived
- 1
978 Broughton Street
West End, 1940
- Miller (no first name printed), a dressmaker 1940
- Rodney Miller 1940
Next door in 1940: G C Hodge at 958 and W Johncox at 990. The block, door by door
- 2
1036 Broughton Street
West End, 1940
- H A Miller, a branch manager for Metro Life 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs M L Ryan at 1012 and G Crump at 1052. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a branch manager and a dressmaker.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in West End (2). 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 Miller (no first name printed) at 978 Broughton Street, a dressmaker, with Rodney Miller. H A Miller is listed at 1036 Broughton 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 Henry A Miller there as the householder, a branch manager for Metro Life.
Today
The City no longer lists 978 Broughton and 1036 Broughton, so those buildings are 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.
- Miller Mrs — drsmkr978 Broughton, p. 429
- Miller Rodney978 Broughton, p. 430
- *Miller H A1036 Broughton, p. 20
- Miller Henry A br mgr Metro Life1036 Broughton, p. 430
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Millers
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Miller 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.