A family name on East 22nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Muirs
In the city directories 1940 · three people at one address
The directories print three people named Muir at one address, 1496 East 22nd Avenue in Kensington-Cedar Cottage, in 1940. The directories print the name on 44 other streets too, all listed on the Muir name's own page.
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The Muirs at home
Cedar Cottage
- 1
1496 East 22nd Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- J J Muir, a salesman at Hygrade Market 1940
- Hugh M Muir, retired 1940
- Janet C Muir, a laundress at Pioneer Laundry 1940
Next door in 1940: A Wood at 1488. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a laundress and a salesman.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Kensington-Cedar Cottage. 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 J J Muir at 1496 East 22nd Avenue; 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 James J Muir there as the householder, a salesman at Hygrade Market, with Hugh M Muir, retired, and Janet C Muir, a laundress at Pioneer Laundry.
Today
1496 East 22nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1927 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 4 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Muir J J1496 East 22nd, p. 234
- Muir Hugh M retired1496 East 22nd, p. 446
- Muir Jas J slsmn Hygrade Mkt1496 East 22nd, p. 446
- Muir Janet C lndrs Pioneer Lndy1496 East 22nd, p. 446
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Muirs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Muir 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.