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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Morlocks

In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses

The directories print four people named Morlock at two addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. 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 Morlocks at 2568 West 45th in 1940.

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Where the Morlocks 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

    1183 Pacific Street

    West End, 1940

    • L H Morlock, a department manager 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs A L Degg at 1169. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2568 West 45th Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • A R Morlock, a salesman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
    • Elizabeth G Morlock 1940
    • Neil G Morlock, an assistant purser at the Union Steamship Company 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs E Newman at 2532 and E Johnston at 2592. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for three of the four: an assistant purser, a department manager and a salesman.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Kerrisdale and West End. 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 L H Morlock at 1183 Pacific Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Lorne H Morlock there as the householder, a department manager. In 1940 the directory lists A R Morlock at 2568 West 45th Avenue. The 1940 name section lists Alvin R Morlock there as the householder, a salesman at the BC Electric Railway, with Elizabeth G Morlock, and Neil G Morlock, an assistant purser at the Union Steamship Company.

Today

2568 West 45th (2008) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 1183 Pacific, so that building is 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, street section

The book of the Morlocks

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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.