A family name on East 11th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Munros
In the city directories 1940 · five people at four addresses
The directories print five people named Munro at four addresses in 1940, all on East 11th Avenue, with the close spelling Munroe. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 90 other streets too, all listed on the Munro name's own page.
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Where the Munros lived
- 1
501 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Mabel E Munro, a music teacher 1940
Next door in 1940: P L Inglis at 509. The block, door by door
- 2
509 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- Gladys M Munro, a stenographer at the BC Telephone 1940
Next door in 1940: P L Inglis at 501 and H J Strom at 517. The block, door by door
- 3
1060 East 11th Avenue
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- P C Munro, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
- Elspeth Munro, a student at UBC 1940
Next door in 1940: O C Vaughan-Thomas at 1054 and D Draisey at 1068. The block, door by door
- 4
1755 East 11th Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- H Albert Munro 1940
Next door in 1940: O Altenburger at 1749 and E Lewis at 1757. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the five: a motorman, a music teacher and a stenographer.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Mount Pleasant (3) and 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
The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mabel E Munro at 501 East 11th Avenue, a music teacher. The 1940 name section lists Gladys M Munro at 509 East 11th Avenue, a stenographer at the BC Telephone. In 1940 the directory lists P C Munro at 1060 East 11th 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 lists Peter C Munro there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway, with Elspeth Munro, a student at UBC.
The 1940 name section lists H Albert Munro at 1755 East 11th Avenue.
Today
509 East 11th and 1060 East 11th still have their buildings from before 1946; 501 East 11th (2011) and 1755 East 11th (1991) have newer buildings, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Munro Mabel E mus tchr501 East 11th, p. 448
- Munro Gladys M sten BC Tel509 East 11th, p. 448
- *Munro P C1060 East 11th, p. 202
- Munro Elspeth studt UBC1060 East 11th, p. 448
- Munro Peter C mtrmn BCER1060 East 11th, p. 448
- Munro H Albt1755 East 11th, p. 448
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Munros
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Munro 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.