A family name on East 1st Avenue, Grandview-Woodland, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and Hastings-Sunrise
The Murphys
In the city directories 1940 · two people at one address
The directories print two people named Murphy at one address, 1774 East 1st Avenue in Grandview-Woodland, 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
Woodland
- 1
1774 East 1st Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- G C Murphy, an engineer at Canadian White Pine 1940
- Betty C Murphy 1940
Next door in 1940: Rev C C Sorensen at 1762 and J Taylor at 1780. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for one of the two: an engineer.
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 G C Murphy at 1774 East 1st Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Gordon C Murphy there as the householder, an engineer at Canadian White Pine, with Betty C Murphy.
Today
1774 East 1st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1912 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 3 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Murphy G C1774 East 1st, p. 172
- Murphy Betty C1774 East 1st, p. 449
- Murphy Gordon C eng Can White Pine1774 East 1st, p. 449
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
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.