A family name on West 23rd Avenue, Dunbar-Southlands, Riley Park, South Cambie and Arbutus Ridge
The Millses
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Mills at one address, 567 West 23rd Avenue in South Cambie, in 1940. The directories print the name on 77 other streets too, all listed on the Mills name's own page.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Millses at home
Cambie
- 1
567 West 23rd Avenue
South Cambie, 1940
- J Mills, a welder at N Vancouver Ship Repairs 1940
- Aileen Mills, a waitress at UBC 1940
- Greta Mills, a saleswoman at Woodward's 1940
Next door in 1940: R Harris at 563 and R McEwan at 571. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all three: a saleswoman, a waitress and a welder.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in South Cambie. 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 J Mills at 567 West 23rd 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 John Mills there as the householder, a welder at N Vancouver Ship Repairs, with Aileen Mills, a waitress at UBC, and Greta Mills, a saleswoman at Woodward's.
Today
567 West 23rd (1996) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Mills J567 West 23rd, p. 237
- Mills Aileen waitress UBC567 West 23rd, p. 431
- Mills Greta slswm Woodwards567 West 23rd, p. 431
- Mills John wldr N Van Ship Reprs567 West 23rd, 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.