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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Minsters

In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address

The directories print four people named Minster at one address, 1483 West 15th Avenue in Fairview, in 1940.

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The Minsters at home

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).
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    1483 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs F Minster, widow of T 1940
    • Lillian Minster 1940
    • Max Minster, proprietor of United Upholstery 1940
    • Sam Minster, a laborer at United Distil 1940

    Next door in 1940: miromar (the) at 1465 and shaughnessy mansions at 1487. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a laborer and a proprietor. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Fairview. 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 Mrs F Minster at 1483 West 15th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Fanny Minster there as the householder, widow of T, with Lillian Minster, Max Minster, proprietor of United Upholstery, and Sam Minster, a laborer at United Distil.

Today

The City no longer lists 1483 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Minsters

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.