A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Munros
In the city directories 1940 · four people at two addresses
The directories print four people named Munro at two addresses in 1940, all on East 7th 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 most under one roof: three Munros at 1938 East 7th in 1940. 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
- 2
1938 East 7th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- Don J Munro 1940
- George M Munro, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway 1940
- Margaret J Munro, a saleswoman at Crystal Dairy 1940
Next door in 1940: W A Irvine at 1936 and J Tomkins at 1948. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the four: a conductor and a saleswoman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland and Mount Pleasant. 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 L A Munro at 1062 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Leonard A Munro there as the householder. The 1940 name section lists Don J Munro at 1938 East 7th Avenue, with George M Munro, a conductor at the BC Electric Railway, and Margaret J Munro, a saleswoman at Crystal Dairy.
Today
1938 East 7th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 1062 East 7th (2009) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Munro L A1062 East 7th, p. 190
- Munro Leonard A1062 East 7th, p. 448
- Munro Don J1938 East 7th, p. 448
- Munro Geo M cond BCER1938 East 7th, p. 448
- Munro Margt J slswm Crystal Dairy1938 East 7th, p. 448
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.