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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Mintys

In the city directories 1940 · three people at three addresses

The directories print three people named Minty at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family.

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Where the Mintys 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

    1638 Nelson Street

    West End, 1940

    • Alice Minty, who worked for BC Distil 1940

    Next door in 1940: W T Frith at 1632 and Mrs G H Curtin at 1642. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    3050 Oak Street

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs E M Minty, widow of A 1940
  3. 3

    1876 West Broadway

    Kitsilano, 1940

    • A J Minty, a chief engineer at Shell Oil 1940

    Next door in 1940: C R Bennett at 1846 and ventura (the) at 1886. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a chief engineer and an employee. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Fairview, Kitsilano and West End. 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 Alice Minty at 1638 Nelson Street, who worked for BC Distil. Mrs E M Minty is listed at 3050 Oak Street in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Edith M Minty there as the householder, widow of A.

A J Minty is listed at 1876 West Broadway in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Alan J Minty there as the householder, a chief engineer at Shell Oil.

Today

3050 Oak and 1876 West Broadway still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 1638 Nelson, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments
21 May 1929 Oak Street at Broadway, looking south past billboards and the Vallejo Court apartments. Not at the house at 3050 Oak: no archive photo of the 3000 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 453-1. Public domain.

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, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Mintys

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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.