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A family name on West 4th Avenue, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey

The Millers

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Miller at two addresses in 1940, all on West 4th Avenue, 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

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

    1833 West 4th Avenue

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • R Miller, proprietor of Famous Shoe Renew 1940

    Next door in 1940: alpha blk at 1825 and J W Salsbury at 1835. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4698 West 4th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • Richard C Miller, a student at UBC 1940

    Next door in 1940: M H Smith at 4688. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a proprietor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kitsilano and West Point Grey. 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 R Miller at 1833 West 4th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Rudolph Miller there as the householder, proprietor of Famous Shoe Renew. The 1940 name section lists Richard C Miller at 4698 West 4th Avenue, a student at UBC.

Today

1833 West 4th and 4698 West 4th still have their buildings from before 1946.

Every line as printed

All 3 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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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.