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A family name on Windsor Street, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Sunset

The Montgomerys

In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses

The directories print two people named Montgomery at two addresses in 1940, all on Windsor Street, 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 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. 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

    6129 Windsor Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • R Montgomery, a janitor at the BC Electric Railway 1940

    Next door in 1940: W E Valleau at 6101 and A Terry at 6151. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    6295 Windsor Street

    Sunset, 1940

    • J A Montgomery, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: W J Wells at 6273. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: a janitor.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Sunset (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

In 1940 the directory lists R Montgomery at 6129 Windsor Street; 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, where each person's work is printed, lists Richard Montgomery there as the householder, a janitor at the BC Electric Railway. In 1940 the directory lists J A Montgomery at 6295 Windsor Street; the 1940 line is marked * too. The 1940 name section lists James A Montgomery there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, with James A Montgomery Jr, a student.

Today

6129 Windsor (2010) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 6295 Windsor, 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, street section

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.