A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Millses
In the city directories 1940 · five people at two addresses
The directories print five people named Mills at two addresses in 1940, all on East 12th Avenue. 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: three Millses at 2012 East 12th in 1940. The directories print the name on 77 other streets too, all listed on the Mills name's own page.
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Where the Millses lived
- 1
2012 East 12th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- H C Mills 1940
- Herbert H Mills, a locomotive engineer at the CNR 1940
- William H Mills, a brickman 1940
Next door in 1940: E D Ramsell at 2004 and C E Munro at 2024. The block, door by door
- 2
2032 East 12th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J D Mills, an inspector at the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau 1940
- Byron B Mills, a shingle inspector at C W Lumber 1940
Next door in 1940: S M Rutledge at 2030 and R W Coultish at 2062. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a brickman, an inspector, a locomotive engineer and a shingle inspector.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage (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 H C Mills at 2012 East 12th Avenue; 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 Herbert H Mills there as the householder, a locomotive engineer at the CNR, with William H Mills, a brickman. In 1940 the directory lists J D Mills at 2032 East 12th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists James D Mills there as the householder, an inspector at the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, with Byron B Mills, a shingle inspector at C W Lumber.
Today
2012 East 12th and 2032 East 12th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Mills H C2012 East 12th, p. 207
- Mills Herbt H loco eng CNR2012 East 12th, p. 431
- Mills Wm H brkmn2012 East 12th, p. 432
- Mills J D2032 East 12th, p. 207
- Mills Byron B shingle inspr C W Lbr2032 East 12th, p. 431
- Mills Jas D inspr PLIB2032 East 12th, p. 431
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Millses
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Mills name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
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.