A family name on West 16th Avenue, Fairview, Riley Park, Mount Pleasant, South Cambie, Shaughnessy, Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, Dunbar-Southlands and West Point Grey
The Mitchells
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Mitchell at one address, 708 West 16th Avenue in South Cambie, 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
Cambie
- 1
708 West 16th Avenue
South Cambie, 1940
- Miss F M Mitchell, in dry goods 1940
- Florence M Mitchell, in dry goods 1940
Next door in 1940: J T Walker at 706 and Miss E D Malpass at 710. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a dry goods.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in South Cambie. 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 Miss F M Mitchell, in dry goods, at 708 West 16th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Florence M Mitchell there, in dry goods.
Today
The City no longer lists 708 West 16th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Mitchell Miss F M dry gds708 West 16th, p. 222
- Mitchell Florence M dry goods708 West 16th, 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.