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A family name on Main Street, Riley Park, Strathcona, Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

The Millers

In the city directories 1940 · nine people at six addresses

The directories print nine people named Miller at six addresses in 1940, all on Main 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 most under one roof: three Millers at 6427 Main 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

    205 Main Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • Mrs Barbara Miller, a housekeeper at the Melbourne Rooms 1940
    • Robert Miller 1940

    Next door in 1940: Melbourne Hotel at 201 and J Fuoco at 215. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    605 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • J Miller, a shoe repairer 1940

    Next door in 1940: A Larocque at 601 and Parker's Furn Exch at 607. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    917 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Ernest E Miller, retired 1940

    Next door in 1940: Better 'Ole (The) at 915 and Machinery Jobbing & Junk Co at 925. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1022 Main Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • James A Miller, a logger 1940

    Next door in 1940: Van Bottle Co at 1020 and Main Sheet Metal Works at 1024. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    2545 Main Street

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • T Miller 1940

    Next door in 1940: Belvedere Delctsn at 2543 and W E Turnbull at 2549. The block, door by door

  6. 6

    6427 Main Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • W J Miller, a mechanic 1940
    • Frank T Miller, an apprentice for E J Trayling 1940
    • Helen Miller, a labeller 1940

    Next door in 1940: W Braithwaite at 6451. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for five of the nine: an apprentice, a housekeeper, a labeller, a logger and a mechanic.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (3), Downtown, Mount Pleasant and Sunset. 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 Mrs Barbara Miller at 205 Main Street, a housekeeper at the Melbourne Rooms, with Robert Miller. J Miller, a shoe repairer, is listed at 605 Main Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Ernest E Miller at 917 Main Street, retired. The 1940 name section lists James A Miller at 1022 Main Street, a logger.

In 1940 the directory lists T Miller at 2545 Main Street. W J Miller is listed at 6427 Main 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 W John Miller there as the householder, a mechanic, with Frank T Miller, an apprentice for E J Trayling, and Helen Miller, a labeller.

Today

205 Main, 917 Main and 2545 Main still have their buildings from before 1946; 1022 Main (1960) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 605 Main and 6427 Main, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards
March 1940 Streetcars on Main Street, past a row of billboards. Not at the house at 6427 Main: no archive photo of the 6400 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 136-513. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 10 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

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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.