A family name on Burrard Street, Downtown, West End, Fairview and Kitsilano
The Murphys
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Murphy at one address, 1081 Burrard Street in Downtown, in 1940. The directories print the name on 84 other streets too, all listed on the Murphy name's own page.
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The Murphys at home
- 1
1081 Burrard Street
Downtown, 1940
- Anna Murphy, a maid at the St Paul's Hospital 1940
- Isabelle Murphy, a clerk at the St Paul's Hospital 1940
Next door in 1940: A Lloyd at 1055. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for all two: a clerk and a maid. Two of them worked for St Paul's Hospital.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Downtown. 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 Anna Murphy at 1081 Burrard Street, a maid at the St Paul's Hospital, with Isabelle Murphy, a clerk at the St Paul's Hospital.
Today
1081 Burrard still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record and on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Murphy Anna maid St Paul's Hosp1081 Burrard, p. 449
- Murphy Isabelle clk St Paul's Hosp1081 Burrard, p. 449
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed
The book of the Murphys
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Murphy 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.