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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Munsies

In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address

The directories print two people named Munsie at one address, 2157 Napier Street in Grandview-Woodland, in 1940.

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The Munsies at home

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).
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    2157 Napier Street

    Grandview-Woodland, 1940

    • E W Munsie, an inspector at the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau 1940
    • Cath Munsie, a student 1940

    Next door in 1940: Mrs M Citterelle at 2145 and J Nicol at 2163. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an inspector.

Their neighbourhoods

The address is in Grandview-Woodland. 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 E W Munsie at 2157 Napier Street; 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 Edwin W Munsie there as the householder, an inspector at the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, with Cath Munsie, a student.

Today

2157 Napier still has its building from before 1946, dated 1913 by the City's record.

Houses along Napier Street, looking west from Lakewood Drive
1932 Houses along Napier Street, looking west from Lakewood Drive. Taken where the 2100 block ends; it doesn't single out the house at 2157 Napier. City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-4167. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 3 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 Munsies

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.