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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Mounts

In the city directories 1940 · five people at three addresses

The directories print five people named Mount at three addresses in 1940 in two of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: three Mounts at 3707 Dunbar in 1940.

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Where the Mounts 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

    3707 Dunbar Street

    Dunbar-Southlands, 1940

    • M Mount, a bricklayer 1940
    • Dora Mount, a packer at Swifts 1940
    • Robert Mount, a grader at Overseas Wood Products 1940

    Next door in 1940: R R Wesley at 3719. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    151 East 8th Avenue

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Pleasant News M H Holmes Mount, an editor 1940

    Next door in 1940: F Marriott at 135 and royal bank of canada chambers at 199. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    582 East Broadway

    Mount Pleasant, 1940

    • Pleasant Community Dramatic Group Mrs F Crierie Mount, an organizer 1940

    Next door in 1940: E J McMorran at 578 and G Fitz-Gerald at 592. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for all five: a bricklayer, an editor, a grader, an organizer and a packer.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (2) and Dunbar-Southlands. 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 M Mount at 3707 Dunbar 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 Mark Mount there as the householder, a bricklayer, with Dora Mount, a packer at Swifts, and Robert Mount, a grader at Overseas Wood Products. The 1940 name section lists Pleasant News M H Holmes Mount at 151 East 8th Avenue, an editor. The 1940 name section lists Pleasant Community Dramatic Group Mrs F Crierie Mount at 582 East Broadway, an organizer.

Today

3707 Dunbar still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 151 East 8th and 582 East Broadway, so those buildings are probably gone (inferred).

A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows
1940 A No. 14 Dunbar streetcar on Dunbar Street, past bungalows. Not at the house at 3707 Dunbar: no archive photo of the 3700 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, 2009-005.530. Public domain.

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 Mounts

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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.