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A family name on William Street, Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise

The Munros

In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses

The directories print three people named Munro at two addresses in 1940, all on William Street, 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

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1472 William Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • F Munro, retired 1940
    • William Munro, a clerk 1940

    Next door in 1940: S McLarnin at 1466 and M Squire at 1492. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    2186 William Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • Lydia Munro, widow of J 1940

    Next door in 1940: J H Shaw at 2154 and Mrs M Worley at 2196. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the three: a clerk. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). 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 Munro at 1472 William Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Frank Munro there as the householder, retired, with William Munro, a clerk. The 1940 name section lists Lydia Munro at 2186 William Street, widow of J.

Today

1472 William still has its building from before 1946, dated 1924 by the City's record; 2186 William (2015) has a newer building, 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.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

The book of the Munros

Every directory, as one book

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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.