A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Muramatsus
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Muramatsu at one address, 741 East Broadway in Mount Pleasant, in 1940.
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The Muramatsus at home
Pleasant
- 1
741 East Broadway
Mount Pleasant, 1940
- I Muramatsu, a fisherman 1940
- Mrs Waka Muramatsu, proprietor of Fairmont Cleaners 1940
Next door in 1940: H McMillan at 739 and 5 listings at 743. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a fisherman and a proprietor.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in 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 I Muramatsu at 741 East Broadway. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Ichiro Muramatsu there as the householder, a fisherman, with Mrs Waka Muramatsu, proprietor of Fairmont Cleaners.
Today
The City no longer lists 741 East Broadway, 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.
- Muramatsu I741 East Broadway, p. 15
- Muramatsu Ichiro fshrmn741 East Broadway, p. 448
- Muramatsu Mrs Waka prop Fairmont Clnrs741 East Broadway, p. 448
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Muramatsus
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Muramatsu 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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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.