A family name in Vancouver's city directories
The Murrays
In the city directories 1940 · 214 addresses on 137 streets
The directories print the Murray name at 214 addresses on 137 streets in 1940, in 20 of the city's neighbourhoods. At that many addresses it is many families, not one, so each street has its own page: the people we can follow there by first name and initials, and every line as printed.
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Where the Murrays lived
- Downtown28 addresses
- Kitsilano24 addresses
- Fairview21 addresses
- Kensington-Cedar Cottage19 addresses
- West End19 addresses
- Mount Pleasant18 addresses
- Grandview-Woodland15 addresses
- Hastings-Sunrise15 addresses
- Riley Park9 addresses
- Dunbar-Southlands7 addresses
- Strathcona7 addresses
- Kerrisdale6 addresses
- Sunset6 addresses
- Arbutus Ridge5 addresses
- West Point Grey5 addresses
- Renfrew-Collingwood4 addresses
- Shaughnessy3 addresses
- Marpole1 address
- South Cambie1 address
- Victoria-Fraserview1 address
Where the name was printed
The twelve streets with the most addresses first; tap one for its story and the record.
- 1West 12th AvenueSix addresses in Mount Pleasant, Fairview and West Point Grey; eight people: J F Murray, Mrs M V Murray, Dorothea A Murray and five more1940
- 2Granville StreetFive addresses in Downtown; five people: Frank Murray, J J Murray, Jack Murray and two more1940
- 3West 10th AvenueFive addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; eight people: J J Murray, W D Murray, W Murray and five more1940
- 4Harwood StreetFour addresses in West End; six people: J Murray, Mrs J Murray, Blythe Murray and three more1940
- 5West 11th AvenueFour addresses in Fairview; six people: J A Murray, Mrs M C Murray, Eleanor Murray and three more1940
- 6West 1st AvenueFour addresses in Kitsilano; eight people: R Murray, J I Murray, J W Murray and five more1940
- 7West 8th AvenueFour addresses in Fairview, Kitsilano and West Point Grey; six people: W G Murray, W Murray, Annie Murray and three more1940
- 8East 16th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Riley Park; seven people: J Murray, D S Murray, Agnes Murray and four more1940
- 9East 7th AvenueThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Grandview-Woodland; four people: D Murray, R J Murray, Ken Murray and one more1940
- 10East BroadwayThree addresses in Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise; seven people: C R Murray, Mrs M Murray, Arnold Murray and four more1940
- 11Robson StreetThree addresses in Downtown and West End; four people: Dorothy E Murray, James I Murray, Mrs Cath Murray and one more1940
- 12Trinity StreetThree addresses in Hastings-Sunrise; four people: A R Murray, Mrs M Murray, Mrs M Murray and one more1940
125 more streets, by name: Adanac Street (1), Alberni Street (1), Angus Drive (1), Barclay Street (2), Blanca Street (1), Broughton Street (1), Bruce Street (2), Burrard Street (2), Bute Street (1), Cambie Street (1), Cambridge Street (1), Cardero Street (2), Cassiar Street (1), Charles Street (1), Commercial Drive (1), Commercial Street (1), Comox Street (1), Cypress Street (1), Davie Street (1), Drake Street (1), Dumfries Street (1), Dundas Street (2), Dunsmuir Street (2), East 10th Avenue (2), East 11th Avenue (1), East 12th Avenue (1), East 13th Avenue (1), East 15th Avenue (1), East 17th Avenue (1), East 19th Avenue (1), East 1st Avenue (1), East 20th Avenue (2), East 22nd Avenue (1), East 23rd Avenue (2), East 26th Avenue (1), East 27th Avenue (1), East 28th Avenue (1), East 3rd Avenue (1), East 42nd Avenue (1), East 43rd Avenue (1), East 48th Avenue (1), East 4th Avenue (1), East 59th Avenue (1), East 5th Avenue (2), East 63rd Avenue (1), East 6th Avenue (2), East 8th Avenue (2), East Cordova Street (2), East Georgia Street (1), East Hastings Street (2), East Pender Street (1), Elm Street (1), Ferndale Street (2), Frances Street (1), Franklin Street (1), Fraser Street (2), Garden Drive (1), Grant Street (1), Graveley Street (1), Hamilton Street (1), Haro Street (2), Howe Street (1), Inverness Street (1), Lanark Street (1), Laurel Street (1), Maple Street (1), Matthews Avenue (1), McLean Drive (1), Nanaimo Street (2), Nelson Street (1), Nicola Street (1), Ontario Street (1), Oxford Street (1), Pacific Street (1), Pandora Street (1), Pendrell Street (1), Point Grey Road (1), Powell Street (2), Prince Edward Street (1), Prior Street (2), Quebec Street (1), Richards Street (1), Ross Street (1), Rupert Street (1), Salsbury Drive (1), Seymour Street (1), Spencer Street (1), Trimble Street (1), Union Street (2), Venables Street (1), Victoria Drive (3), Vine Street (1), West 13th Avenue (3), West 14th Avenue (2), West 15th Avenue (3), West 20th Avenue (1), West 21st Avenue (1), West 22nd Avenue (1), West 26th Avenue (2), West 2nd Avenue (2), West 30th Avenue (1), West 31st Avenue (1), West 34th Avenue (2), West 35th Avenue (1), West 36th Avenue (1), West 37th Avenue (2), West 3rd Avenue (2), West 41st Avenue (2), West 44th Avenue (1), West 47th Avenue (1), West 49th Avenue (1), West 4th Avenue (1), West 5th Avenue (2), West 70th Avenue (1), West 7th Avenue (3), West Broadway (3), West Cordova Street (1), West Georgia Street (3), West Hastings Street (1), West King Edward Avenue (1), West Pender Street (2), Willow Street (1), Windsor Street (1), Woodland Drive (1), Yew Street (1).
Today
By the City's record, of the 214 addresses, 79 still have their buildings from before 1946, four have buildings standing whose year the City doesn't record, 39 have newer buildings and the City no longer lists 92; each street's page names them.
The book of the Murrays
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Murray 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 (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages; one name can be many families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. More family names under M. Want a name removed? Tell us.