Vancouver / Names / M / Milne / West 16th Avenue

A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey

The Milnes

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Milne at three addresses in 1940, all on West 16th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 57 other streets too, all listed on the Milne name's own page.

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Where the Milnes 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

    76 West 16th Avenue

    Riley Park, 1940

    • Arthur Milne, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: Miss P C Smallwood at 62 and C Grant at 86. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    1551 West 16th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mary Milne, a nurse 1940

    Next door in 1940: st charles apts at 1535 and york manor at 1565. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    3863 West 16th Avenue

    West Point Grey, 1940

    • A Milne, a pressman at Nicholson Ltd 1940

    Next door in 1940: J S Alexander at 3855 and J W Weeks at 3867. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all three: a clerk, a nurse and a pressman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Riley Park 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

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Arthur Milne at 76 West 16th Avenue, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway. The 1940 name section lists Mary Milne at 1551 West 16th Avenue, a nurse. In 1940 the directory lists A Milne at 3863 West 16th 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 lists Alex Milne there as the householder, a pressman at Nicholson Ltd.

Today

1551 West 16th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record; 76 West 16th (2013) and 3863 West 16th (2014) have newer buildings, 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.
1940

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

The book of the Milnes

Every directory, as one book

The family book reads the Milne 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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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.