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A family name on East 4th Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise

The Montgomerys

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Montgomery at two addresses in 1940, all on East 4th Avenue, with the close spelling Montgomary. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Montgomerys at 265 East 4th in 1940. The directories print the name on 55 other streets too, all listed on the Montgomery name's own page.

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Where the Montgomerys 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

    60 East 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Harold Montgomery, a laborer 1940

    Next door in 1940: H Johnson at 58 and Mrs M McLaughlin at 66. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    265 East 4th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Mrs E Montgomery, widow of H 1940
    • David Montgomery, a laborer 1940
    • Sam S Montgomery, an engineer 1940

    Next door in 1940: R Stonehouse at 259 and J Lasko at 271. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a laborer (2) and an engineer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (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 Harold Montgomery at 60 East 4th Avenue, a laborer. Mrs E Montgomery is listed at 265 East 4th 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 Elizabeth Montgomery there as the householder, widow of H, with David Montgomery, a laborer, and Sam S Montgomery, an engineer.

Today

265 East 4th (2017) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 60 East 4th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

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 Montgomerys

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.