A family name on Kingsway, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Mount Pleasant and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Muirs
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Muir at one address, 928 Kingsway 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
928 Kingsway
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- F V Muir, a fire captain at the City of Vancouver 1940
- J Doug H Muir, a clerk at Macdonalds Consolidated 1940
Next door in 1940: C A Gladwin at 920 and R S Merritt at 934. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a fire captain.
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 F V Muir at 928 Kingsway; 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 Frank V Muir there as the householder, a fire captain at the City of Vancouver, with J Doug H Muir, a clerk at Macdonalds Consolidated.
Today
928 Kingsway (2007) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Muir F V928 Kingsway, p. 98
- Muir Frank V fire capt Van City928 Kingsway, p. 446
- Muir J Doug H clk Macdonalds Consol928 Kingsway, 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.