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A family name on East Georgia Street, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise

The Mitchells

In the city directories 1940 · five people at five addresses

The directories print five people named Mitchell at five addresses in 1940, all on East Georgia Street, 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 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. One address isn't on today's map, so it has no pin. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    249 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • H Mitchell 1940

    Next door in 1940: Georgia Lndy at 245 and Coast Growers Prod Co at 251. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    327 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • John Mitchell, a laborer at Canadian John Wood 1940

    Next door in 1940: “Orientals” at 321 and Fraser Growers United at 329. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    634 East Georgia Street

    Strathcona, 1940

    • Leo Mitchell, a musician 1940

    Next door in 1940: dickinson apts at 630 and A Rimousky at 638. The block, door by door

  4. 4

    2524 East Georgia Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • W J Mitchell, a laborer at the City of Vancouver 1940

    Next door in 1940: S A Holton at 2516 and C Langley at 2530. The block, door by door

  5. 5

    3125 East Georgia Street

    Hastings-Sunrise, 1940

    • Benjamin W Mitchell, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Blackwell at 3123 and J F Rowan at 3135. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the five: a laborer (2), a clerk and a musician.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Strathcona (3) and Hastings-Sunrise (2). 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 H Mitchell at 249 East Georgia Street. The 1940 name section lists John Mitchell at 327 East Georgia Street, a laborer at Canadian John Wood. The 1940 name section lists Leo Mitchell at 634 East Georgia Street, a musician.

W J Mitchell is listed at 2524 East Georgia Street 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 William J Mitchell there as the householder, a laborer at the City of Vancouver. The 1940 name section lists Benjamin W Mitchell at 3125 East Georgia Street, a clerk at the BC Electric Railway.

Today

249 East Georgia and 634 East Georgia still have their buildings from before 1946, 634 East Georgia on the Vancouver Heritage Register; 3125 East Georgia (1971) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 327 East Georgia and 2524 East Georgia, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 6 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

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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.