A family name on East 22nd Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Munros
In the city directories 1940 · two people at two addresses
The directories print two people named Munro at two addresses in 1940, all on East 22nd Avenue, with the close spelling Munroe. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: 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
565 East 22nd Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- G Munro, a helper at Wrights' Canadian Ropes 1940
Next door in 1940: J J Lobban at 563 and G Hambleton at 569. The block, door by door
- 2
985 East 22nd Avenue
Kensington-Cedar Cottage, 1940
- W A Munro, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway 1940
Next door in 1940: W E Read at 975. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a helper and a motorman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Riley Park. 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 G Munro at 565 East 22nd Avenue, a helper at Wrights' Canadian Ropes. W A Munro is listed at 985 East 22nd Avenue in 1940. The 1940 name section lists William A Munro there as the householder, a motorman at the BC Electric Railway.
Today
985 East 22nd still has its building from before 1946, dated 1925 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 565 East 22nd, so that building is probably gone (inferred).
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Munro G hlpr Wrights' Can Ropes565 East 22nd, p. 448
- Munro W A985 East 22nd, p. 234
- Munro Wm A mtrmn BCER985 East 22nd, 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.