A family name on East Hastings Street, Strathcona, Downtown, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Millers
In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses
The directories print five people named Miller at five addresses in 1940, all on East Hastings 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
- 1
110 East Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- George Miller 1940
Next door in 1940: Radio Lunch at 108 and Linwood Co at 112. The block, door by door
- 2
159 East Hastings Street
Downtown, 1940
- Lloyd G Miller, a locomotive engineer at the CNR 1940
Next door in 1940: Common Gold Cafe at 151 and Balmoral Hotel Cigar Stand at 161. The block, door by door
- 3
800 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- Edward Miller, a laborer at BC Sugar 1940
Next door in 1940: M Murakubo at 802. The block, door by door
- 4
913 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- H G Miller, a watchman 1940
Next door in 1940: F W Parker at 917. The block, door by door
- 5
1248 East Hastings Street
Strathcona, 1940
- H Miller 1940
Next door in 1940: D S Heaslip at 1244 and Mrs A Rembold at 1268. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a laborer, a locomotive engineer and a watchman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Strathcona (3) and Downtown (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 George Miller at 110 East Hastings Street. The 1940 name section lists Lloyd G Miller at 159 East Hastings Street, a locomotive engineer at the CNR. The 1940 name section lists Edward Miller at 800 East Hastings Street, a laborer at BC Sugar.
H G Miller is listed at 913 East Hastings Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Harry G Miller there as the householder, a watchman. H Miller is listed at 1248 East Hastings Street in 1940.
Today
The City no longer lists 110 East Hastings, 800 East Hastings, 913 East Hastings and 1248 East Hastings, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred); for 159 East Hastings, its page says what we could and couldn't match to today's buildings.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Miller Geo - - -110 East Hastings, p. 429
- Miller Lloyd G loco eng CNR159 East Hastings, p. 430
- Miller Edw - lab BC Sugar800 East Hastings, p. 429
- Miller H G913 East Hastings, p. 75
- Miller Harry G wtchmn913 East Hastings, p. 430
- Miller H magazine exch1248 East Hastings, p. 75
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Millers
Every directory, as one book
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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.