A family name on East 28th Avenue, Renfrew-Collingwood, Riley Park and Kensington-Cedar Cottage
The Mitchells
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Mitchell at one address, 658 East 28th Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940, with the close spelling Mitchaell. The directories print the name on 137 other streets too, all listed on the Mitchell name's own page.
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The Mitchells at home
- 1
658 East 28th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- S G Mitchell, a porter at the CPR 1940
- Leslie G Mitchell, a logger 1940
- Mrs Martha Mitchell 1940
Next door in 1940: H A Burns at 650 and J Wright at 666. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a logger and a porter.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. 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 S G Mitchell at 658 East 28th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Stan G Mitchell there as the householder, a porter at the CPR, with Leslie G Mitchell, a logger, and Mrs Martha Mitchell.
Today
The City no longer lists 658 East 28th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Mitchell S G658 East 28th, p. 243
- Mitchell Leslie G logr658 East 28th, p. 434
- Mitchell Mrs Martha658 East 28th, p. 434
- Mitchell Stan G porter CPR658 East 28th, p. 434
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Mitchells
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Mitchell 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.