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A family name on Cypress Street, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano, Shaughnessy and Arbutus Ridge

The Millers

In the city directories 1940 · four people at three addresses

The directories print four people named Miller at three addresses in 1940, all on Cypress Street, with the close spelling Millier. No first name or initials tie one address to another: 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

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    2057 Cypress Street

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • W Miller, a shoemaker 1940

    Next door in 1940: L P Dionne at 2053 and Mrs L J Coffey at 2063. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6568 Cypress Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • H H Miller, a machinist at the CPR 1940
    • Hugh A Miller, an apprentice at the CPR 1940

    Next door in 1940: W D McLeod at 6556. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    7061 Cypress Street

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • H Miller, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: N MacKinnon at 7037 and F T Jones at 7087. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an apprentice, a machinist and a shoemaker. Two of them worked for CPR.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale (2) and 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 W Miller at 2057 Cypress Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William Miller there as the householder, a baker at Woodward's, with William Miller Jr, a shoemaker. In 1940 the directory lists H H Miller at 6568 Cypress Street. The 1940 name section lists Hugh H Miller there as the householder, a machinist at the CPR, with Hugh A Miller, an apprentice at the CPR.

In 1940 the directory lists H Miller at 7061 Cypress 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 lists Hugh Miller there as the householder, retired.

Today

2057 Cypress, 6568 Cypress and 7061 Cypress still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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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.