A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Murrs
In the city directories 1940 · one person at one address
The directories print one person named Murr at one address, 7949 Montcalm Street in Marpole, in 1940.
Reserve this family's book, freeThe name in every directory we hold from 1901 to 1945, at every address, each line with its page, to read here or save as a PDF. About $29 when orders open.
The Murrs at home
- 1
7949 Montcalm Street
Marpole, 1940
- H Murr, a clerk at Shell Oil 1940
Next door in 1940: A A Brundrett at 7935 and J G Sutherland at 7963. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for the one person: a clerk.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Marpole. 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 H Murr at 7949 Montcalm Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Harvey Murr there as the householder, a clerk at Shell Oil.
Today
7949 Montcalm (2005) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 2 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Murr H7949 Montcalm, p. 115
- Murr Harvey clk Shell Oil7949 Montcalm, p. 449
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Murrs
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Murr 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.