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A family name on East 12th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood

The Mitchells

In the city directories 1940 · ten people at four addresses

The directories print ten people named Mitchell at four addresses in 1940, all on East 12th Avenue, with the close spelling Mitchaell. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: five Mitchells at 1222 East 12th in 1940. The directories print the name on 137 other streets too, all listed on the Mitchell name's own page.

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Where the Mitchells lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Two addresses aren't on today's map, so they have no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    24 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Sophie Mitchell 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Jones at 30. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    817 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • F R Mitchell, a salesman 1940
    • Eva V Mitchell 1940
    • Lillian F Mitchell, a clerk for Kelly Douglas 1940

    Next door in 1940: J Docherty at 811 and J H Nolan at 821. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    1200 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • J C Mitchell, a wireman at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: F W Watt at 1204. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    1222 East 12th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • W Mitchell, a transfer 1940
    • Adelaide A Mitchell, a stenographer at Pacific Coast Fire Insurance 1940
    • George S Mitchell, an accountant at McDermott Motors 1940
    • Margaret A Mitchell, a boundary at Grant & Sons 1940
    • Ruth G Mitchell, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: R E Edge at 1210 and P L Leslie at 1234. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for eight of the ten: a stenographer (2), an accountant, a boundary, a clerk, a salesman and a transfer, among others. Two of them worked for BC Electric Railway.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (4). 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 Sophie Mitchell at 24 East 12th Avenue. F R Mitchell is listed at 817 East 12th Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists Frederick R Mitchell there as the householder, a salesman, with Eva V Mitchell, and Lillian F Mitchell, a clerk for Kelly Douglas.

J C Mitchell is listed at 1200 East 12th Avenue in 1940; 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 James C Mitchell there as the householder, a wireman at the BC Electric Railway. W Mitchell, a transfer, is listed at 1222 East 12th Avenue in 1940; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists William Mitchell there, a transfer, with Adelaide A Mitchell, a stenographer at Pacific Coast Fire Insurance, George S Mitchell, an accountant at McDermott Motors, Margaret A Mitchell, a boundary at Grant & Sons, and Ruth G Mitchell, a stenographer at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

24 East 12th, 1200 East 12th and 1222 East 12th still have their buildings from before 1946; the City no longer lists 817 East 12th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 13 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 Mitchells

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.