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A family name on Garden Drive, Grandview-Woodland and Kensington-Cedar Cottage

The Millers

In the city directories 1940 · six people at two addresses

The directories print six people named Miller at two addresses in 1940, all on Garden Drive, 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 most under one roof: four Millers at 535 Garden Drive in 1940. 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

    535 Garden Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Mrs F Miller 1940
    • Frieda Miller 1940
    • Dora A Miller, a school teacher 1940
    • Olga Miller, a clerk at Woodward's 1940

    Next door in 1940: E McE Steyenson at 525. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1280 Garden Drive

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • R E Miller, a shopman at the Canadian (BC) Telephone 1940
    • Lorraine C Miller 1940

    Next door in 1940: C H Taylor at 1270 and A T Whiley at 1290. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the six: a clerk, a school teacher and a shopman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (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

In 1940 the directory lists Mrs F Miller at 535 Garden Drive; 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 Frieda Miller there as the householder, with Dora A Miller, a school teacher, and Olga Miller, a clerk at Woodward's. In 1940 the directory lists R E Miller at 1280 Garden Drive; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists Russell E Miller there as the householder, a shopman at the Canadian (BC) Telephone, with Lorraine C Miller.

Today

535 Garden Drive and 1280 Garden Drive still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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.